From owner-freebsd-current Sat Apr 22 06:40:50 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id GAA22935 for current-outgoing; Sat, 22 Apr 1995 06:40:50 -0700 Received: from aries.ibms.sinica.edu.tw ([140.109.40.248]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id GAA22929 for ; Sat, 22 Apr 1995 06:40:43 -0700 Received: (from taob@localhost) by aries.ibms.sinica.edu.tw (8.6.11/8.6.9) id VAA15459; Sat, 22 Apr 1995 21:41:06 +0800 Date: Sat, 22 Apr 1995 21:41:05 +0800 (CST) From: Brian Tao To: FREEBSD-CURRENT-L Subject: Fixing /dev entries (was Re: wcarchive down ) In-Reply-To: <14719.798423020@freefall.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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