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Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 16:25:01 +0800
From: Jiawei Ye <leafy7382@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: man 4 ar on 5.4
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On 6/10/05, Artem Kuchin <matrix@itlegion.ru> wrote:
> See
>=20
> man 4 ar
>=20
> I think it is fully outdated, bease ar is an RAID storage
> device, as i see when i use Promise TX2000
>=20
> Artem
ATA(4)                 FreeBSD Kernel Interfaces Manual                 ATA=
(4)

NAME
     ata, ar, acd, ad, afd, ast -- generic ATA/ATAPI disk controller driver


Nevertheless I think it is indeed confusing to have duplicate names
for different devices.

Jiawei
--=20
"Without the userland, the kernel is useless."
               --inspired by The Tao of Programming