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Date:      Fri, 14 Apr 2000 20:58:29 +1000
From:      Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au>
To:        Ashley Penney <ashp@bastard.co.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Problems with MAKEDEV.
Message-ID:  <00Apr14.205835est.115320@border.alcanet.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <20000414114155.A61941@twilight.bastard.co.uk>; from ashp@bastard.co.uk on Fri, Apr 14, 2000 at 08:43:12PM %2B1000
References:  <20000414114155.A61941@twilight.bastard.co.uk>

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On 2000-Apr-14 20:43:12 +1000, Ashley Penney <ashp@bastard.co.uk> wrote:
>  It seems that the MAKEDEV script only 
>makes up to ad3, but my disks are on ad4/ad5 (ATA-66, Abit BP6).

"MAKEDEV all" is designed to create a generic set of devices that
covers most situations.  It _doesn't_ cover all situations - in
particular sound devices and disk slices.  You have to make those
devices manually.

In this case, I don't believe it's appropriate to automatically
create ad4/ad5 because the majority of people won't have them -
common hardware provides 2 IDE channels, each capable of
supporting 2 devices.  If you have a 3rd IDE channel, then you
would have had to create the wd/ad devices manually anyway.

I'd recommend "find /dev -type b -ls", or for the more paranoid
"find /dev -type d -o -type c -o -type l -o -ls", followed by
manual MAKEDEV or rm commands as appropriate.

Peter


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