From owner-freebsd-current Tue Sep 29 22:43:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA26629 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 29 Sep 1998 22:43:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA26603 for ; Tue, 29 Sep 1998 22:43:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain [203.38.152.97]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.6.9) with ESMTP id PAA07111; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 15:12:46 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199809300455.VAA14380@math.berkeley.edu> Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 15:12:44 +0930 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: (Dan Strick) Subject: Re: time for some new man pages Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 30-Sep-98 Dan Strick wrote: > Over the last 10 years my brain has developed some fixed > neural pathways that say "sd" and "st" and it is hard to > change. Also, I dread having to explain the meaning of > "da" and "sa" to people who do not live and breathe the > SCSI standards. Well.. Sequential Access and Direct Access are fairly obvious IMHO.. Also, when (haha) CAM supports other things besides SCSI it will be more logical.. (ie IDE if that ever happens) Of course I haven't used SCSI devices much so it doesn't bother me :) Perhaps if MAKEDEV is fixed to create the old names as well as the new (since its apparently broken) then it will keep people happy. --------------------------------------------------------------------- |Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software | |http://www.gsoft.com.au | |The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to| |choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum | --------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message