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Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 15:51:44 +0100
From: "Patrick M. Hausen" <hausen@punkt.de>
To: d_elbracht <d_elbracht@ecngs.de>
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Subject: Re: Block device
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h, all,

On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 03:32:01PM +0100, d_elbracht wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> can someone please explain, why 
>  	stat -x /dev/da1
> 
> show the SCSI-Drive as a character-device ?

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/arch-handbook/driverbasics-block.html

HTH,

Patrick M. Hausen
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