From owner-freebsd-doc Fri Feb 9 11:50:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECC7E37B684 for ; Fri, 9 Feb 2001 11:50:02 -0800 (PST) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f19Jo2B06128; Fri, 9 Feb 2001 11:50:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gnats) Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2001 11:50:02 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200102091950.f19Jo2B06128@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Cc: From: Julian Elischer Subject: Re: docs/24786: missing FILES descriptions in sa(4) Reply-To: Julian Elischer Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR docs/24786; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Julian Elischer To: Rich Morin Cc: Nik Clayton , FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org, julian@freebsd.org, mjacob@freebsd.org Subject: Re: docs/24786: missing FILES descriptions in sa(4) Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2001 11:48:07 -0800 Rich Morin wrote: > > So I gather that the device is ALWAYS used in "raw" mode, so there > is really no need for an explicit "r" designation. Getting rid of > the "r" versions cleans things up a lot, so it works for me... > > Regarding the ".[0-3]" extensions, I am still perplexed. It sounds > like the mode bits are overloaded with the [en] designations, as: > > /dev/sa0.0 Corresponds to sub-mode 00 (i.e., /dev/sa0) > /dev/sa0.1 Corresponds to sub-mode 01 (i.e., /dev/nsa0) > /dev/sa0.2 Corresponds to sub-mode 10 (i.e., /dev/esa0) nope.. > > But if that's true, I don't understand how there can be names such as > ersa0.0. Finally, mode 3 is actually being created by MAKEDEV, but it > is not mentioned as a possibility by the man page. What's going on? I'm not sure if it's STILL true, but when I write it originally, the submodes were so that you could have a single device programmed up to use different block sizes and densities, and teh nyou could read/write tapes in those densities by just using the different subdevices. (e.g. .1 might write in 3K blocks and .2 might right in variable block mode) useful if you are distributing media to people with machines with different capabilities. > > -r > -- > -- > http://www.cfcl.com/rdm > email: rdm@cfcl.com > phone: +1 650-873-7841 -- __--_|\ Julian Elischer / \ julian@elischer.org ( OZ ) World tour 2000-2001 ---> X_.---._/ v To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message