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Date:      Thu, 25 Jan 2001 19:01:43 -0800
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Jon Loeliger <jdl@jdl.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Western Digital Caviar /dev/ad1s1e vs /dev/wd1s1e ?
Message-ID:  <20010125190143.C67976@citusc17.usc.edu>
In-Reply-To: <200101252149.PAA13742@chrome.jdl.com>; from jdl@jdl.com on Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 03:49:32PM -0600
References:  <200101252149.PAA13742@chrome.jdl.com>

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On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 03:49:32PM -0600, Jon Loeliger wrote:

> When I installed the whole mess originally, I had two
> Western Digital 1G Caviar drives hanging around the house
> (Yes, back then dirt still _was_ rocks!).  And I installed
> both those drives just fine.  Now I expected them to show
> up as /dev/wd's.  Nah.  They showed up as /dev/ad's.

wd is now ad with the new ATA driver. Make all the changes
accordingly..you can re-make the devices in /dev using
'cd /dev && sh MAKEDEV all' (if you have more than 2 IDE
drives you might need to use MAKEDEV ad<#> to build more
device entries.

I think this is all covered in /usr/src/UPDATING

Kris

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