New disk woes

Matthew Seaman m.seaman at infracaninophile.co.uk
Sun Dec 23 09:40:04 PST 2007


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Mark wrote:
> On an older 4.11 FreeBSD system I need to replace a disk. 

[...]

> But no ad4, it seems. How quaint! So, is there a way to recreate it? The
> 
> backup disk is failing, and I need to have it replaced soon.

/dev/MAKEDEV ad4

I believe will recreate the device for you, although ICBW as I haven't
had much to do with any 4.x systems for quite some time, and what with
the dynamic /dev/ stuff nowadays, those neurons are beeing fairly rapidly
recycled.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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