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Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2000 11:10:57 -0500
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Subject: Mylex DAC960 driver for FreeBSD 3.x-STABLE
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From README:

<This is the third revision of the backport of the mlx driver to

[snip]

<Copy the files mlx.c, mlxvar.h and mlxreg.h and into /sys/pci, and add
<the line:
<
<pci/mlx.c		optional mlx device-driver
<to /sys/conf/files.

Done

<Add 
<
<controller	mlx0
<
<to your kernel configuration and re-config and re-build your
<kernel.  

Done

<In order to create the device nodes for the disk devices, replace
</dev/MAKEDEV with the version included in this archive.  (It is

Done

<Then use the following steps to prepare the array for use.
<# cd /dev
<# ./MAKEDEV mlxd0

Gives the error:

"Illegal option -"


Tried MAKEDEV both before and after rebooting with the new kernel, same
results. What am I doing wrong?

p.s. Am using FBSD 3.4-RELEASE but I don't think that should cause any
problems.


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