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Date:      Wed, 25 Sep 2002 14:48:46 +0100
From:      Simon Dick <simond@irrelevant.org>
To:        Bill Schoolcraft <bill@wiliweld.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: [ad8] external laptop drive?
Message-ID:  <20020925134846.GA3524@irrelevant.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0209250628200.23187-100000@corten8>
References:  <Pine.LNX.4.44.0209250628200.23187-100000@corten8>

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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 <IBM-DYLA-28100> [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

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Simon Dick					simond@irrelevant.org

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