Date: Tue, 13 Jun 1995 06:40:18 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: hackers@freebsd.org, jfieber@cs.smith.edu Subject: Re: `device' versus `disk' in kernel config file Message-ID: <199506122040.GAA27564@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>What exactly is the difference between saying: > device sd0 > device st0 >and > disk sd0 > tape st0 >in a kernel config file? The latter wouldn't work. In general, `disk's are attached to controllers and `devices's are stand-alone. `device sd0' would give little more than a file "sd.h" with `#define NSD 1" in it, except config/mkioconf.c knows that the devices cd, ch, sd, st and uk are scsi devices (:-() and generates extra code for them. Bruce
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