third IDE

Mark admin at asarian-host.net
Wed May 19 15:18:39 PDT 2004


Kent Stewart wrote:

> On Wednesday 19 May 2004 02:13 pm, Mark wrote:
>> Ok, I bought the Promise Ultra133, and now FreeBSD (4.9R) recognized
>> my third IDE port:
>> 
>> ATA channel 2:
>>     Master:  ad4 <Maxtor 6Y080L0/YAR41BW0> ATA/ATAPI rev 7
>>     Slave:       no device present
>> 
>> But I cannot mount it! "mount /dev/ad4s1a /backup" says:
>> 
>> "mount: /dev/ad4s1a: No such file or directory"
>> 
>> And /dev/ad4 does not exist in /dev/. How do I create it??
>> 
> I would try
> 
> cd /dev
> sh MAKEDEV ad4s1a

That simple, eh? :) Thanks! It works.

- Mark



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