Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 09:35:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: Jim Bryant <kc5vdj@yahoo.com>, scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: oddity with dump(8) or sa(4) in -current Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0107130934370.74809-100000@beppo> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0107131931550.34434-100000@besplex.bde.org>
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On Fri, 13 Jul 2001, Bruce Evans wrote: > On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Matthew Jacob wrote: > > > On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Jim Bryant wrote: > > > On a side note, what happened to the "raw" device nodes [/dev/*rsa*]? I'm guessing that the lack of "raw" nodes doesn't make a diff, > > > as /dev/*sa* are all character-mode devices. > > > > No, all devices are block devices now. Linux has no raw, FreeBSD has no > > cooked. Feh. > > No. No devices are block devices now (or yesterday; block devices > went away in 4.0). Linux has no character disk devices; FreeBSD has > no block disk devices. Feh. Tapes are a little different from disks. Really? I'll have to tell the ANSI SCSI committee! > Neither FreeBSD nor Linux has block tape devices, but FreeBSD used to > have them. /dev/*rsa* didn't go away; they were just renamed to > /dev/*sa*. The old /dev/*sa* went away. :-) > > Bruce > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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