Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 13:01:07 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@NUXI.com> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to add a new bootdevice to the new boot code ??? Message-ID: <19990317130107.D39245@relay.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <199903172035.PAA07013@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>; from Garrett Wollman on Wed, Mar 17, 1999 at 03:35:56PM -0500 References: <36EFF0F0.9C57E653@newsguy.com> <43236.921697223@critter.freebsd.dk> <19990317113918.B39105@relay.nuxi.com> <199903172035.PAA07013@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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> No, that was not the justification for the name change. The > justification (Justinfication?) was that in SCSI terminology, these > things -- not all of which are disks -- are called ``direct access'' > devices. Similarly, `sa' is ``sequential access''. Then why do we still have ``cd''? Isn't a CDROM a direct access device? Last time I used my, I didn't have to read sector 1 before reading sector 9893. -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.com -or- obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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