FreeBSD 5.3 dev nodes

[Tim Traver]

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It appears that this has been replaced by devfs, and I must say that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.

[Dan Nelson]

In the last episode (Feb 25), Tim Traver said:

> 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 It appears that this has been replaced by devfs, and I must say that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...

You don't have to do anything; just pop your disk in, run "camcontrol
rescan all", and use the /dev/da1 that magically appears.

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Dan Nelson
[email]dnelson@allantgroup.com[/email]