From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Apr 2 15:20:57 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from rwcrmhc51.attbi.com (rwcrmhc51.attbi.com [204.127.198.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABF5F37B43E for ; Tue, 2 Apr 2002 15:20:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from blossom.cjclark.org ([12.234.91.48]) by rwcrmhc51.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020402232035.PISF18078.rwcrmhc51.attbi.com@blossom.cjclark.org>; Tue, 2 Apr 2002 23:20:35 +0000 Received: (from cjc@localhost) by blossom.cjclark.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g32NKUK53877; Tue, 2 Apr 2002 15:20:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 15:20:30 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: Doug Silver Cc: "Kenneth D. Merry" , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SCSI tape error using Amanda/dump Message-ID: <20020402152030.C52193@blossom.cjclark.org> References: <20020401210806.A59384@panzer.kdm.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from dsilver@quantified.com on Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 11:11:32AM -0800 X-URL: http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- Crist J. Clark | cjclark@alum.mit.edu | cjclark@jhu.edu http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ | cjc@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message