FreeBSD 5.3 dev nodes

[Tim Traver]

Hi all,

ok, this may be a dumb question, but here goes...

I have just started using the 5.X branch of FreeBSD, and needed to mount 
a hot swap drive in a second drive bay. In the past, I've simply run 
MAKEDEV, and it made the device files for me, and then I was able to 
mount the drive and I was on my way...

It appears that this has been replaced by devfs, and I must say that 
this is an extremely difficult process to understand (must mean its very 
powerful ;).

All I want to do is create the da1 devices for my second scsi disk, and 
I honestly have no idea how to do that with devfs...

Anyone shed some light for me ???

Thanks,

Tim.