Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 20:22:24 +0000 (UTC) From: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Quantum 7000 Message-ID: <9qndm0$2a2p$2@kemoauc.mips.inka.de> References: <99A83EE8C34AD311809C009027936117144B49@dell-serv-1.phoenixmedical.co.uk> <15310.50283.575252.497988@audio.gfoster.com>
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Glen Foster <gfoster@gfoster.com> wrote: > Tape devices customarily have "r" prepended to their names. No. That 'r' means "raw device" (= character device), as opposed to a block device. Tape block devices just haven't been supported in BSD for the last two decades or so. When FreeBSD got rid of the block device concept altogether, the plain device names were turned into character devices, and the corresponding 'r' device nodes have been preserved as simple compatibility links in the 4.x branch. In 5.0-CURRENT they are finally gone. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the messagehome | help
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