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Date:      Mon, 3 Aug 2015 13:19:02 -0400
From:      Paul Kraus <paul@kraus-haus.org>
To:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: USB stick and some help with it.
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On Aug 3, 2015, at 13:11, Bernt Hansson <bah@bananmonarki.se> wrote:

> On 2015-08-03 19:07, jd1008 wrote:

>>=20
>> OK, so in your installation what do you see in /dev as far as disk =
devices that are raw
>> (i.e. their name starts with r)?
>=20
> None.
>=20
> On FreeBSD, all block devices are in fact raw devices. Support for =
non-raw devices was removed in FreeBSD 4.0 in order to simplify buffer =
management and increase scalability and performance.

An ls -l on my 10.1-RELEASE-p10 systems shows disk devices as character =
special (=93raw=94) and does not show any block special devices.

crw-r-----  1 root  operator  0x76 Jul 21 10:30 ada0
crw-r-----  1 root  operator  0x7a Jul 21 10:30 ada1
crw-r-----  1 root  operator  0x89 Jul 21 10:30 ada1p1
crw-r-----  1 root  operator  0x8b Jul 21 10:30 ada1p2
crw-r-----  1 root  operator  0x8d Jul 21 10:30 ada1p3
crw-r-----  1 root  operator  0x7c Jul 21 10:30 ada2
crw-r-----  1 root  operator  0x90 Jul 21 10:30 ada2p1
crw-r-----  1 root  operator  0x92 Jul 21 10:30 ada2p2
crw-r-----  1 root  operator  0x94 Jul 21 10:30 ada2p3
crw-r-----  1 root  operator  0x7e Jul 21 10:30 ada3
crw-r-----  1 root  operator  0x80 Jul 21 10:30 ada4
crw-r-----  1 root  operator  0x82 Jul 21 10:30 ada5
crw-r-----  1 root  operator  0x84 Jul 21 10:30 ada6
crw-r-----  1 root  operator  0x86 Jul 21 10:30 ada7

No SCSI (da) devices on this system.=20

--
Paul Kraus
paul@kraus-haus.org




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