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Confusion over missing /dev entries for new drive



Hello,

I've got 4 IDE drives that I've been adding to my OBSD box (master & slave
drives on 2 separate channels).

using fdisk, disklabel, and newfs worked fine on wd1, wd2, and wd3.

But I'm having problems with wd4.

as an example:
bash-2.05# disklabel wd4                                                
disklabel: /dev/rwd4: No such file or directory

So I figured that for whatever reason, the default OBSD install doesn't
include device entries for more than 4 IDE drives.  

This is where I'm somewhat out of my league.  The mknod man page makes
reference to MAKEDEV.  MAKEDEV has no entry for a device name of 'rwd'.
The OBSD FAQ doesn't seem to have much to say about creating new devices.

What am I missing?

	thanks,

	--pete