Devfs not creating da0, 1, etcetera on 5.2

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Sun Jan 25 17:41:26 PST 2004


On Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 05:28:16PM -0800, scott renna wrote:
> I have been struggling trying to get a USB external
> CDRW to work recently and I've noticed that within
> /dev, the devices da0.... are not present.

I don't think a CDRW would be attached as a da0 device (CD devices are
usually cd devices ;-)

> da is present in my kernel as is scbus.  I'm wondering
> how to go about creating them manually.
> 
> any advice on this?

Post your kernel config and dmesg (and anything appropriate from the
kernel logs), for starters.

Kris
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