devfs and slices on Iomega ZIP media

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Fri Apr 11 00:21:05 PDT 2003


In message <20030411071226.GA910 at kyuzo.dunkelkammer.void>, Stefan Walter writes
:

>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:

I just received five minutes ago a SCSI zip drive (Thank you!) so
I can work on this issue.

For now you may be able to force a rexamination by:
	true > /dev/da1

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