Re: Confusion over missing /dev entries for new drive

[Pete Leonard <pete@hero.com>]

Bingo!  Thanks!

	--peter

On Sat, 15 Jun 2002, rabbit wrote:

> Sorry, I misunderstood at first :)
> 
> Try this as root:
> cd /dev
> sh MAKEDEV wd4
> 
> That should create the device files for wd4.
> 
> 
>  - rabbit
> 
> 
> On Sat, 15 Jun 2002, Pete Leonard wrote:
> 
> > 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