Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 15:12:44 +0930 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: (Dan Strick) <dan@math.berkeley.edu> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: time for some new man pages Message-ID: <XFMail.980930151244.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <199809300455.VAA14380@math.berkeley.edu>
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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
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