From owner-freebsd-isp Sat Aug 2 23:10:44 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA07116 for isp-outgoing; Sat, 2 Aug 1997 23:10:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from super-g.inch.com (super-g.com [207.240.140.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA07111 for ; Sat, 2 Aug 1997 23:10:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (spork@localhost) by super-g.inch.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id CAA22838; Sun, 3 Aug 1997 02:14:27 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 3 Aug 1997 02:14:27 -0400 (EDT) From: spork X-Sender: spork@super-g.inch.com To: Robin Melville cc: Eddie Fry , freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: creating devices In-Reply-To: <3.0.2.32.19970802140204.006af880@wrcmail> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Anyone ever run into problems making the 11th hard drive? MAKEDEV sd10 didn't complain, but I cannot get a disklabel on the thing, even by dumping sd9's label, editing it and writing from that file... Is there a different numbering convention once you've gone past 9? Charles On Sat, 2 Aug 1997, Robin Melville wrote: > At 10:33 01/08/00 -0700, Eddie Fry wrote: > >I've looked high and low for this, but can't seem to figure it out. > > > >How do I create device files? > > The native program is "mknod". FreeBSD is friendly & nice and provides > "./MAKEDEV" in the /dev directory for the ease of busy sysadmins. > > Robin. > > -------------------------------------------------------- > Robin Melville, Addiction & Forensic Information Service > Nottingham Alcohol & Drug Team (Extn. 49178) > Vox: +44 (0)115 952 9478 Fax: +44 (0)115 952 9421 > Email: robmel@nadt.org.uk > WWW: http://www.innotts.co.uk/nadt/ > --------------------------------------------------------- >