From owner-freebsd-stable Tue May 2 5:50:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from point.osg.gov.bc.ca (point.osg.gov.bc.ca [142.32.102.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E61A537B80B; Tue, 2 May 2000 05:50:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by point.osg.gov.bc.ca (8.8.7/8.8.8) id FAA31254; Tue, 2 May 2000 05:49:49 -0700 Received: from passer.osg.gov.bc.ca(142.32.110.29) via SMTP by point.osg.gov.bc.ca, id smtpda31252; Tue May 2 05:49:44 2000 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by passer.osg.gov.bc.ca (8.9.3/8.9.1) id FAA02971; Tue, 2 May 2000 05:49:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cwsys9.cwsent.com(10.2.2.1), claiming to be "cwsys.cwsent.com" via SMTP by passer9.cwsent.com, id smtpdlU2969; Tue May 2 05:49:38 2000 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by cwsys.cwsent.com (8.10.1/8.9.1) id e42CnbS00775; Tue, 2 May 2000 05:49:37 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200005021249.e42CnbS00775@cwsys.cwsent.com> Received: from localhost.cwsent.com(127.0.0.1), claiming to be "cwsys" via SMTP by localhost.cwsent.com, id smtpdeql771; Tue May 2 05:49:30 2000 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 Reply-To: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group From: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group X-OS: FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE X-Sender: cy To: Brad Knowles Cc: dg@root.com, Mike Smith , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How good is AMI MegaRAID support? In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 02 May 2000 11:29:58 +0200." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 02 May 2000 05:49:29 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message , Brad Knowles writes: > At 5:35 PM -0700 2000/5/1, David Greenman wrote: > > > You need to use the raw (character) device for testing things like this > . > > I don't think FreeBSD 4.0 and above have character devices any > more, do they? Tty and SCSI are two examples of character devices still in use. SCSI supports both character and block devices. Only the new ATA driver doesn't use block devices, e.g. it only supports character devices. Regards, Phone: (250)387-8437 Cy Schubert Fax: (250)387-5766 Team Leader, Sun/DEC Team Internet: Cy.Schubert@osg.gov.bc.ca Open Systems Group, ITSD, ISTA Province of BC To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message