From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 24 12:54:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 779BE37B9C0 for ; Thu, 24 Feb 2000 12:54:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.91.36] ident=exim) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1) id 12O3Q0-00092u-00; Thu, 24 Feb 2000 18:55:20 +0000 Received: (from ben) by strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk (Exim 3.12 #7) id 12O3Q0-000HsA-00; Thu, 24 Feb 2000 18:55:20 +0000 Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 18:55:20 +0000 From: Ben Smithurst To: cdel Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What is interface ds0 used for? Message-ID: <20000224185520.E26191@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG cdel wrote: > I never noticed this device before. I grep'd sys/i386/conf to find a > mention but of ds0 couldn't. It's a discard interface, included as a result of "pseudo-device disc" in your kernel config. If you don't use it, I guess you can remove it. I guess the string "ds0" should be mentioned in LINT somewhere (any docs people reading want to fix this?). -- Ben Smithurst / ben@scientia.demon.co.uk / PGP: 0x99392F7D To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message