From owner-freebsd-doc Fri Feb 9 11:40:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F04237B6AC for ; Fri, 9 Feb 2001 11:40:04 -0800 (PST) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f19Je4T05186; Fri, 9 Feb 2001 11:40:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gnats) Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2001 11:40:04 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200102091940.f19Je4T05186@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Cc: From: Rich Morin Subject: Re: docs/24786: missing FILES descriptions in sa(4) Reply-To: Rich Morin Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR docs/24786; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Rich Morin To: Nik Clayton Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org, julian@freebsd.org, mjacob@freebsd.org Subject: Re: docs/24786: missing FILES descriptions in sa(4) Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2001 11:35:29 -0800 So I gather that the device is ALWAYS used in "raw" mode, so there is really no need for an explicit "r" designation. Getting rid of the "r" versions cleans things up a lot, so it works for me... Regarding the ".[0-3]" extensions, I am still perplexed. It sounds like the mode bits are overloaded with the [en] designations, as: /dev/sa0.0 Corresponds to sub-mode 00 (i.e., /dev/sa0) /dev/sa0.1 Corresponds to sub-mode 01 (i.e., /dev/nsa0) /dev/sa0.2 Corresponds to sub-mode 10 (i.e., /dev/esa0) But if that's true, I don't understand how there can be names such as ersa0.0. Finally, mode 3 is actually being created by MAKEDEV, but it is not mentioned as a possibility by the man page. What's going on? -r -- -- http://www.cfcl.com/rdm email: rdm@cfcl.com phone: +1 650-873-7841 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message