From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 21 16:44:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from echunga.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B938537B4C5 for ; Tue, 21 Nov 2000 16:44:10 -0800 (PST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by echunga.lemis.com (8.11.1/8.9.3) id eAM0eid83624; Wed, 22 Nov 2000 11:10:44 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 11:10:43 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Mike Ruhl Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: wd vs ad Message-ID: <20001122111043.C83216@echunga.lemis.com> References: <3A1AD033.D39AF963@network-alchemy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3A1AD033.D39AF963@network-alchemy.com>; from mruhl@network-alchemy.com on Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 11:42:44AM -0800 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tuesday, 21 November 2000 at 11:42:44 -0800, Mike Ruhl wrote: > Howdy, > > I recently upgraded to 4.0 and made the change from the /dev/wd* > devices to /dev/ad* devices. And I had a few questions about this... > :) > > 1) Can I safely delete the wd devices? Yes. > 2) It appears that the ad devices are character devices instead of > block devices. Further investigation reveals that all the wd devices > are character devices as well. I have obviously missed something > somewhere. When did the disk devices become character devices? Why > the change? Has the driver model changed so that character/block > devices are no longer "relevant"? > > A casual search of the archives hasn't revealed anything. :( Can > someone point me to a location of where this was discussed? The archives. But more specifically, block devices went away with 4.0. Nothing much else has changed. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message