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Old 15th February 2011
Roric Roric is offline
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First of all I would like to thank you both for the replies. After some much needed rest I tackled the problem again.

I tried to do a "ls -la" inside of /dev and something interesting came up.

While all of the other devices seemed to follow a numbered pattern, followed by the date and then the device. The device wd1i completely breaks all of those patterns with a very long string of seemingly random numbers (probably the cylinder count) and the date set for the device was sometime back in July of 1963. After I typed in "date" I realized that my system time was set for Sept 1987.

I changed the date to the current and now all the devices are showing to be updated with the current date AND I am now about to mount wd1i as normal.

Thank you for the info about MAKEDEV, this is not something that I am familiar with and I will have to put it on my growing list of man pages that I will eventually get around to reading.

One last thing, how do I mark this [Solved]?
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