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Date:      Tue, 02 May 2000 05:49:29 -0700
From:      Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca>
To:        Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be>
Cc:        dg@root.com, Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: How good is AMI MegaRAID support? 
Message-ID:  <200005021249.e42CnbS00775@cwsys.cwsent.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 02 May 2000 11:29:58 %2B0200." <v04220804b53450705f2f@[195.238.24.94]> 

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In message <v04220804b53450705f2f@[195.238.24.94]>, Brad Knowles writes:
> At 5:35 PM -0700 2000/5/1, David Greenman wrote:
> 
> >     You need to use the raw (character) device for testing things like this
> .
> 
> 	I don't think FreeBSD 4.0 and above have character devices any 
> more, do they?

Tty and SCSI are two examples of character devices still in use.  SCSI 
supports both character and block devices.  Only the new ATA driver 
doesn't use block devices, e.g. it only supports character devices.


Regards,                       Phone:  (250)387-8437
Cy Schubert                      Fax:  (250)387-5766
Team Leader, Sun/DEC Team   Internet:  Cy.Schubert@osg.gov.bc.ca
Open Systems Group, ITSD, ISTA
Province of BC





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