Lost disc/device : Can't stat

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jaymax

O/S FreeBSD 7.2

A partial failure of the power unit, 5 or 3V supply was compromised. The system starts, up/reboot in single user mode. Running fsck returns
Code: 
CAN'T STAT /dev/ad4s1d
A device handle in my /etc/fstab file for one of my storage disks. Listing of /dev/ shows ad4s1d to be missing.

Code: 
# cd /dev
# ./MAKEDEV ad4s1d
./MAKEDEV: not found

Now, where is the MAKEDEV script located when started in single user mode? I searched /dev, /bin and /sbin to no avail. I tried "Fixit" Live File System but could not get in to /mnt/dev nor any other location for doing a MAKEDEV.

Please advise!
THANKS!
 
I may have lost something here, I guess mknod is also deprecated!
I have read through the 'devfs' man pages but could not figure out how to regenerate the /dev entries. The man pages did not provide any information on if the /etc/fstab file is still needed and if not, how to transition from it.

Any additional directive(s) would be appreciated.

Thanks!
 
Devices 'automagically' appear in /dev/. There's nothing to generate by hand.

Look at dmesg(8) and see if the drive itself is detected.
 
Excerpts from dmesg:

Code: 
acpi0: reservation of 0, a0000 (3) failed
acpi0: reservation of 100000, 3fef0000 (3) failed
---
plip0: WARNING: using obsoleted IFF_NEEDSGIANT flag
That particular disk is not detected, other disks and CDROMs are.
 
jaymax said:
That particular disk is not detected, other disks and CDROMs are.
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Then it's most likely fried. No amount of driver loading will resurrect it.
 
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