devfs and slices on Iomega ZIP media

[Stefan Walter]

Doug White, 12.04.03, 03:25h CEST:

> > > don't they just auto-clone themselves?
> >
> > How? The device files are and remain missing, no matter what I do.
> > In my case, /dev/da1s4 (for DOS/Windows formatted media) is missing if
> > there wasn't any ZIP disk in the drive at boot time:
> 
> Even if you, say, try to mount it? Even when the file is missing?

Yes, that doesn't work, either.

Stefan