Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 14:24:24 +0200 From: "Marco Berizzi" <pupilla@hotmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: block device vs char device Message-ID: <LAW2-F11TbdkSmLAztx0001bd8c@hotmail.com>
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Hi, I'm new to FreeBSD. I have had a little experience with Slackware Linux. I have a couple of questions. This is the output (partial) from ls -l /dev of my FreeBSD 4.6 i386 box. ... crw-r----- 2 root operator 13, 0x00020002 Jul 23 14:49 da0s1 crw-r----- 2 root operator 13, 0x00020000 Jul 23 14:49 da0s1a crw-r----- 2 root operator 13, 0x00020001 Jul 23 14:49 da0s1b crw-r----- 2 root operator 13, 0x00020002 Jul 23 14:49 da0s1c crw-r----- 2 root operator 13, 0x00020003 Jul 23 14:49 da0s1d crw-r----- 2 root operator 13, 0x00020004 Jul 23 14:49 da0s1e crw-r----- 2 root operator 13, 0x00020005 Jul 23 14:49 da0s1f crw-r----- 2 root operator 13, 0x00020006 Jul 23 14:49 da0s1g crw-r----- 2 root operator 13, 0x00020007 Jul 23 14:49 da0s1h crw-r----- 2 root operator 13, 0x00030002 Jul 23 14:49 da0s2 crw-r----- 2 root operator 13, 0x00040002 Jul 23 14:49 da0s3 crw-r----- 2 root operator 13, 0x00050002 Jul 23 14:49 da0s4 crw-r----- 2 root operator 13, 0x0001000a Jul 23 14:49 da1 ... Why /dev/MAKEDEV create these nodes as char device? Should't these device be created as block device (disk & cdrom)? Other question. Which the difference between /dev/cd0a & /dev/cd0c? ... crw-r----- 2 root operator 15, 0 Jul 23 14:50 cd0a crw-r----- 2 root operator 15, 2 Jul 23 14:50 cd0c crw-r----- 2 root operator 15, 8 Jul 23 14:50 cd1a crw-r----- 2 root operator 15, 10 Jul 23 14:50 cd1c ... Last: majors are listed in /usr/src/sys/conf/majors and minors? TIA _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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