Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1998 02:17:22 -0700 (PDT) From: dan@math.berkeley.edu (Dan Strick) To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: dan@math.berkeley.edu Subject: Re: MAKEDEV Support for sd and st Devices (was: time for some new man pages) Message-ID: <199810010917.CAA28131@math.berkeley.edu>
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> Solaris uses /dev/rmt/N for tape devices. Solaris-2 still supports the Solaris-1 compatibility device name links (i.e. sd0, st0, etc.) and the installation of these links is still the default in at least the SPARCitechture side of the OS. I won't defend Solaris-2 device naming conventions. However, consider the truly horrible real names of the special files in the Solaris-2 /devices directory. Then count your blessings. For those of you lucky enough to not know, on a Solaris-2 system /dev/sd0a is a symbolic link to dsk/c0t3d0s0 which in turn points to ../../devices/io-unit@f,e0200000/sbi@0,0/dma@0,81000/esp@0,80000/sd@3,0:a. /dev/da0s1a doesn't sound quite so bad any more. Dan Strickl dan@math.berkeley.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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