From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 7 7:39:22 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (law2-f151.hotmail.com [216.32.181.151]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AF56C15466 for ; Wed, 7 Jul 1999 07:39:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from amybsd@hotmail.com) Received: (qmail 92442 invoked by uid 0); 7 Jul 1999 14:39:10 -0000 Message-ID: <19990707143910.92441.qmail@hotmail.com> Received: from 206.71.110.98 by www.hotmail.com with HTTP; Wed, 07 Jul 1999 07:39:09 PDT X-Originating-IP: [206.71.110.98] From: Amy Wennings To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ATAPI CD burning? (man intro) Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 09:39:09 CDT Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 >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