From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 24 20:18:37 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fep7.mail.ozemail.net (fep7.mail.ozemail.net [203.2.192.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C6C314D5A for ; Sat, 24 Jul 1999 20:18:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from c9710216@atlas.newcastle.edu.au) Received: from atlas.newcastle.edu.au (slnew55p16.ozemail.com.au [203.108.151.94]) by fep7.mail.ozemail.net (8.9.0/8.6.12) with ESMTP id NAA14369; Sun, 25 Jul 1999 13:15:10 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <379A80BC.9412A91B@atlas.newcastle.edu.au> Date: Sun, 25 Jul 1999 13:13:00 +1000 From: obituary X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Pedro Leitao Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MAKEDEV References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Pedro Leitao wrote: > > I just added a new scsi backup tape drive on my server. > I compiled the kernel, and the scsi card and tape drive now show > up on startup as ahc0(card) and sa0(drive). > > I want to use that drive, but the device sa0 doesn't show in /dev. > I am trying to make it with ./MAKEDEV sa0, but that just doesn't work. > When I run ./MAKEDEV sa0 , it looks like it runs, but the sa0 device > doesn't show in /dev/ > > How do I make the backup tape drive device so that I can use it? > > thanx in advance for any help.. Looking at the MAKEDEV script, I think the device(s) it created for you were raw devices. Do an "ls -al /dev/rsa*" and see what turns up. It'll probably be /dev/rsa0 that you'll want to use. -jake (obituary) Powered by FreeBSD c9710216@atlas.newcastle.edu.au http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message