Date: Thu, 02 Jan 1997 01:09:20 -0500 From: "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Cc: core@freebsd.org, freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Iomega SCSI Zip Drive Message-ID: <199701020609.BAA16741@whizzo.transsys.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 01 Jan 1997 21:12:37 %2B0100." <199701012012.VAA00384@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <199701012012.VAA00384@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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> As Bruce Evans wrote: > > > >In the long run, i would see all removable disks go to `od'. We could > > >then continue to improve the `sd' driver for fixed media devices. > > > > `od' is an odd name for a removable scsi disk driver. > > Yes, but we can already consider it ``historical practice'' by now. :) > > Basically, as it stands now, it's just that: a removable disk driver, > with an ioctl interface e.g. to eject a disk. `od' == "Optionally-present Disk" :-) How's that for mnemonic? louie
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