Date: Sat, 22 Apr 1995 21:41:05 +0800 (CST) From: Brian Tao <taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw> To: FREEBSD-CURRENT-L <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Fixing /dev entries (was Re: wcarchive down ) Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.91.950422213913.15300I-100000@aries.ibms.sinica.edu.tw> In-Reply-To: <14719.798423020@freefall.cdrom.com>
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On Thu, 20 Apr 1995, Gary Palmer wrote:
>
> We tried to put 3 new Quantum Grand Prix drives onto a Adaptec 174x SCSI
> card. Pity that the Adaptec cards have a problem talking to the drives
> or something and the SCSI bus just kept locking up. This somehow forced
> the system to spam the entries for /dev/*sd0*. This meant that we
> couldn't even remount the drive read-write to correct the /dev entries.
If someone had physical access, would the solution be as simple as
mounting the drive with the root filesystem on another FreeBSD
machine, re-doing the /dev entries and then replacing the drive? I'm
thinking ahead in case it ever happens to any of the machines here.
--
Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao
taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org
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