From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 18 4:16:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A61437BE69 for ; Thu, 18 May 2000 04:16:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.91.36] ident=exim) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1) id 12sMm0-00097K-00; Thu, 18 May 2000 10:39:20 +0100 Received: (from ben) by strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk (Exim 3.12 #7) id 12sMlz-0007M0-00; Thu, 18 May 2000 10:39:19 +0100 Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 10:39:19 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: ap Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: acd0 probed but not in dev dir? Message-ID: <20000518103919.L21557@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <000701bfc030$c50d2740$92fe1818@socal.rr.com> <20000517202609.G21557@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> <001a01bfc09a$3d69be60$92fe1818@socal.rr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <001a01bfc09a$3d69be60$92fe1818@socal.rr.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Please CC all responses to the mailing list, so everyone can help you, rather than just me... thanks. ap wrote: > tried ./MAKEDEV acd2 ....neither acd0 nor acd1 appear.....what the hell am I > doing wrong...its getting frustrating...espeacially since at one time they > where appearing...and I'm not in the mood to reinstall. Can you try, # cd /dev # sh -x MAKEDEV acd2 That should show which commands it's executing. Copy those commands into your email, or just see which bits look different to this: + [ -n ] + PATH=/sbin:/bin + umask 77 + dkrawpart=2 + dkcompatslice=0 + dkrawslice=1 + disk_umask=037 + tape_umask=017 + umask 037 + expr acd2 : ...\(.*\) + units=2 + name=acd + chr=117 + [ -z 2 -o 2 -le 0 ] + [ 2 -le 31 ] + i=0 + [ 0 -lt 2 ] + dname=acd0 + rm -rf acd0a acd0c racd0a racd0c + mknod acd0a c 117 0 root:operator + rm -f acd0a + /sbin/mknod acd0a c 117 0 root:operator + mknod acd0c c 117 2 root:operator + rm -f acd0c + /sbin/mknod acd0c c 117 2 root:operator + mknod racd0a c 117 0 root:operator + rm -f racd0a + /sbin/mknod racd0a c 117 0 root:operator + mknod racd0c c 117 2 root:operator + rm -f racd0c + /sbin/mknod racd0c c 117 2 root:operator + i=1 + [ 1 -lt 2 ] + dname=acd1 + rm -rf acd1a acd1c racd1a racd1c + mknod acd1a c 117 8 root:operator + rm -f acd1a + /sbin/mknod acd1a c 117 8 root:operator + mknod acd1c c 117 10 root:operator + rm -f acd1c + /sbin/mknod acd1c c 117 10 root:operator + mknod racd1a c 117 8 root:operator + rm -f racd1a + /sbin/mknod racd1a c 117 8 root:operator + mknod racd1c c 117 10 root:operator + rm -f racd1c + /sbin/mknod racd1c c 117 10 root:operator + i=2 + [ 2 -lt 2 ] + umask 77 That's the output on my system. (Which version of FreeBSD are you using by the way? If you mentioned it I've forgotten. I'm guessing it's FreeBSD 4.) -- Ben Smithurst / ben@scientia.demon.co.uk / PGP: 0x99392F7D To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message