how to create da* device?

Conrad J. Sabatier conrads at cox.net
Wed Mar 29 07:49:22 UTC 2006


On Tue, 28 Mar 2006 01:51:41 -0500 (EST)
Peter <petermatulis at yahoo.ca> wrote:

> I am still trying to get my USB hard drive to work.  It used to work
> but now when I plug it in all I get is:
> 
> kernel: umass0: PI-036 USB2.0 Drive, rev 2.00/0.01, addr 2
> kernel: umass0: Get Max Lun not supported (STALLED)
> 
> I remember such messages before but after them there were some more
> meesages beginning with "da0".  But now no da* device is created under
> /dev.
> 
> I figured maybe this (new) drive has gone bad but it works under
> Windows 2000.  Any ideas why this has stopped working?  I did not
> change anything on my system although I just updated my sources and
> baked a new kernel without success (same results).

Updating your sources and building *only* a new kernel without also
building world is never a good idea.  Your kernel and world are most
likely out of sync right now, perhaps even critically so.

I just added an external USB/firewire drive myself, which is working
fine.  The kernel options I added to support the device are:

device		da
device		ehci
device		ohci
device		pass
device		ugen
device		uhci
device		umass
device		usb

Hope this helps.

-- 
Conrad J. Sabatier <conrads at cox.net> -- "In Unix veritas"


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