Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 09:39:09 CDT From: Amy Wennings <amybsd@hotmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ATAPI CD burning? (man intro) Message-ID: <19990707143910.92441.qmail@hotmail.com>
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Oh my GOD!! o.O Why didn't someone show me there were these intros a couple weeks ago??? There's an intro for every section! :D Thanks, Greg! :) >From: Greg Lewis <glewis@ares.maths.adelaide.edu.au> >Subject: Re: ATAPI CD burning? > > > My next question is: Why isn't there an acd0 ar acd1 device, but > > acd0a, acd0c, racd0a, racd0c and the same with 0=1 in there? > > > > I looked at /dev/MAKEDEV and see those are what it makes. > >Hi Amy, > >Copying this to the list since I'm sure someone else can answer >this better than I! I'm not sure about the 'a' and 'c' suffixes, >but according to the intro man page (man 4 intro) the r and non-r >bit is for unbuffered (i.e. raw, hence the r) and buffered >devices specifically. The man page goes into more detail -- you >should read that through :). _______________________________________________________________ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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