Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 15:20:30 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Doug Silver <dsilver@quantified.com> Cc: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SCSI tape error using Amanda/dump Message-ID: <20020402152030.C52193@blossom.cjclark.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0204021057590.14106-100000@danzig.sd.quantified.net>; from dsilver@quantified.com on Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 11:11:32AM -0800 References: <20020401210806.A59384@panzer.kdm.org> <Pine.LNX.4.21.0204021057590.14106-100000@danzig.sd.quantified.net>
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On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 11:11:32AM -0800, Doug Silver wrote:
[snip]
> I think I saw it was mentioned that the /dev/r* device was only there for
> historical reasons and was probably going away -- but don't quote me on that ;)
True. There have been no block devices (they're all character devices,
"raw" devices) for a long time.
$ ls -l /dev/{e,n,}{,r}sa0
crw-rw---- 4 root operator 14, 2 Jun 23 2001 /dev/ersa0
crw-rw---- 4 root operator 14, 2 Jun 23 2001 /dev/esa0
crw-rw---- 4 root operator 14, 1 Jun 23 2001 /dev/nrsa0
crw-rw---- 4 root operator 14, 1 Jun 23 2001 /dev/nsa0
crw-rw---- 4 root operator 14, 0 Jun 23 2001 /dev/rsa0
crw-rw---- 4 root operator 14, 0 Jun 23 2001 /dev/sa0
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