Re: How to make device files for USB Zip drive disks ?
From: Stefan Walter (sw+usenet_at_gegenunendlich.de)
Date: 03/17/05
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Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 15:56:38 +0100
* rafege@gmail.com wrote:
> My question here has to do with the creation of the device
> file "/dev/da0s4".
>
> I don't generally have the disk already inserted in the
> Zip drive when I hot-plug the USB device.
> What bit of "magic" contained in 5.3-R am I overlooking
> that will create the mountable device file ?
> "camcontrol rescan 0" doesn't do it,
> nor does fdisk(8).
"true > /dev/da0" should create it and any other slice entries for the
inserted medium, at least it did when I last worked with a ZIP drive.
...I don't think this is documented anywhere; [1] might be a good place to
mention it, I guess. I might send a patch - if you don't beat me to it. ;)
Stefan
[1]: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/compatibility-drives.html#JAZ
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