----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Brownlee" <abs@NetBSD.org>
To: "Derkjan de Haan" <derkjan@haanjdj.demon.nl>
Cc: <port-sparc@netbsd.org>
Sent: Monday, February 28, 2005 9:29 PM
Subject: Re: scsi disk troubles


> On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, Derkjan de Haan wrote:
>
>>
>> I am using a 6-disk Multipack with a Sparcstation 20. This Multipack 
>> contains various non-Sun disks, mostly originating from pc-based 
>> graphical workstations. These disks worked flawlessly with Solaris 8 and 
>> 9, but disks 5 and 6 (see dmesg output) aren't usable with NetBSD. They 
>> are recognised at boot, but no device special files are created. If I 
>> manually do '/dev/MAKEDEV all' nothing happens either. I tried formatting 
>> them with Solaris and resetting the SCSI modepages to default values, but 
>> that made no difference.
>> Any ideas as to what might be wrong here ? I must admit that they report 
>> a rather curious geometry, but would that be a reason for them not to 
>> work ?
>
>  Have you tried ./MAKEDEV sd5 sd6

Yeah, that did the trick, I sort of didn't know that MAKEDEV creates files 
in the current dir, so it actually needs to be run from within /dev...
Thanks to all for the input!


regards,

Derkjan