From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 25 6:48:58 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 090B337B401 for ; Wed, 25 Sep 2002 06:48:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nelly.internal.irrelevant.org (81-86-164-179.dsl.pipex.com [81.86.164.179]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 269F943E6E for ; Wed, 25 Sep 2002 06:48:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from simond@irrelevant.org) Received: from simond by nelly.internal.irrelevant.org with local (Exim 3.36 #1) id 17uCX0-000152-00; Wed, 25 Sep 2002 14:48:46 +0100 Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 14:48:46 +0100 From: Simon Dick To: Bill Schoolcraft Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [ad8] external laptop drive? Message-ID: <20020925134846.GA3524@irrelevant.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 06:40:45AM -0700, Bill Schoolcraft wrote: > Hello Family, > > I have a laptop (Toshiba-1715) running FreeBSD-4.6.2 and I have > an external IBM_Travelstar 8-gig drive with of course a SCSI > based PCMCIA card to connect to the IDE drive, all of which are > from IBM. > > On boot the drive is fully recognized in "dmesg" with: > > ad8: 7815MB [15880/16/63] at ata4-master BIOSPIO > > And I'm assuming that the "ad8" means /dev/ad8 but my /dev/ad* > directory entries end at /dev/ad3s4. > > Can anyone share any information on this? As root: cd /dev && sh MAKEDEV ad8 -- Simon Dick simond@irrelevant.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message