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Date:      Mon, 21 Feb 2000 01:16:49 -0700
From:      Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
To:        R Joseph Wright <rjoseph@nwlink.com>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: devices under 4.0 
Message-ID:  <200002210816.BAA19365@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 18 Feb 2000 21:50:49 PST." <Pine.BSF.4.21.0002182135540.183-100000@mammalia.sea> 
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0002182135540.183-100000@mammalia.sea>  

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In message <Pine.BSF.4.21.0002182135540.183-100000@mammalia.sea> R Joseph Wright writes:
: I recently upgraded from 3.2 to 4.0.  I use an ide hard disk, and would
: like to know how to change over the devices.  I created the new devices
: by copying over /usr/src/etc/MAKEDEV to a new /dev directory and running
: it, but it didn't create any ata* devices such as is shown in the kernel
: config file.
: It did make devices ada1, ada2, ada3, and ada4, which would correspond to
: the four slices on my disk, but if there are no freebsd partitions shown,
: such as ada4a, etc. 

From src/UPDATING:
	To rebuild disk /dev entries
	----------------------------

	MAKEDEV should be copied from src/etc/MAKEDEV to /dev before
	starting the following:

		For N in the list of disks
			MAKEDEV N			# eg ad0
			for M in the list of slices
				MAKEDEV NsMa		# eg ad0s1a




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