From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 26 01:01:56 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A787C16A4CE for ; Sat, 26 Feb 2005 01:01:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail1.simplenet.com (mailer.simplenet.com [209.132.1.31]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CDC143D2F for ; Sat, 26 Feb 2005 01:01:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tt-list@simplenet.com) Received: from [209.132.9.116] (209.132.9.116) by mail1.simplenet.com (7.0.016) (authenticated as tt-list@simplenet.com) id 421F05C50001736F for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 25 Feb 2005 17:01:53 -0800 Message-ID: <421FC9BD.5080704@simplenet.com> Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 16:58:37 -0800 From: Tim Traver User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 - [MOOX M2] (Windows/20041208) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: FreeBSD 5.3 dev nodes X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 01:01:56 -0000 Hi all, ok, this may be a dumb question, but here goes... I have just started using the 5.X branch of FreeBSD, and needed to mount a hot swap drive in a second drive bay. In the past, I've simply run MAKEDEV, and it made the device files for me, and then I was able to mount the drive and I was on my way... It appears that this has been replaced by devfs, and I must say that this is an extremely difficult process to understand (must mean its very powerful ;). All I want to do is create the da1 devices for my second scsi disk, and I honestly have no idea how to do that with devfs... Anyone shed some light for me ??? Thanks, Tim.