From owner-freebsd-current Wed Mar 17 13: 1:35 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.ucdavis.edu [169.237.7.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2E94152F0 for ; Wed, 17 Mar 1999 13:01:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by relay.nuxi.com (8.9.2/8.9.1) id NAA39652; Wed, 17 Mar 1999 13:01:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 13:01:07 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Garrett Wollman Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to add a new bootdevice to the new boot code ??? Message-ID: <19990317130107.D39245@relay.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@NUXI.com References: <36EFF0F0.9C57E653@newsguy.com> <43236.921697223@critter.freebsd.dk> <19990317113918.B39105@relay.nuxi.com> <199903172035.PAA07013@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <199903172035.PAA07013@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>; from Garrett Wollman on Wed, Mar 17, 1999 at 03:35:56PM -0500 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.1-STABLE Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Keyid: 34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > No, that was not the justification for the name change. The > justification (Justinfication?) was that in SCSI terminology, these > things -- not all of which are disks -- are called ``direct access'' > devices. Similarly, `sa' is ``sequential access''. Then why do we still have ``cd''? Isn't a CDROM a direct access device? Last time I used my, I didn't have to read sector 1 before reading sector 9893. -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.com -or- obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message