Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 15:19:59 +0000 From: "Weston M. Price" <wmprice@direcway.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Character Devices vs. Block Devices Message-ID: <200210011519.59430.wmprice@direcway.com>
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Hello, A quick ls of my dev directory revealed that each one of my hard drives is considered a character device by the system. Example: crw-r----- 2 root operator 116, 0x00010002 Aug 19 16:09 /dev/ad0 crw-r----- 2 root operator 116, 0 Aug 19 16:09 /dev/ad0a crw-r----- 2 root operator 116, 1 Aug 19 16:09 /dev/ad0b crw-r----- 2 root operator 116, 2 Aug 19 16:09 /dev/ad0c crw-r----- 2 root operator 116, 3 Aug 19 16:09 /dev/ad0d crw-r----- 2 root operator 116, 4 Aug 19 16:09 /dev/ad0e crw-r----- 2 root operator 116, 5 Aug 19 16:09 /dev/ad0f crw-r----- 2 root operator 116, 6 Aug 19 16:09 /dev/ad0g crw-r----- 2 root operator 116, 7 Aug 19 16:09 /dev/ad0h What I am confused about, aren't hard drives treated as block devices on most systems? What am I missing? Regards, Weston To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the messagehelp
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