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Date:      Tue, 1 Oct 2002 15:19:59 +0000
From:      "Weston M. Price" <wmprice@direcway.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Character Devices vs. Block Devices
Message-ID:  <200210011519.59430.wmprice@direcway.com>

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Hello,
=09A quick ls of my dev directory revealed that each one of my hard drive=
s is=20
considered a character device by the system. Example:

crw-r-----  2 root  operator  116, 0x00010002 Aug 19 16:09 /dev/ad0
crw-r-----  2 root  operator  116,   0 Aug 19 16:09 /dev/ad0a
crw-r-----  2 root  operator  116,   1 Aug 19 16:09 /dev/ad0b
crw-r-----  2 root  operator  116,   2 Aug 19 16:09 /dev/ad0c
crw-r-----  2 root  operator  116,   3 Aug 19 16:09 /dev/ad0d
crw-r-----  2 root  operator  116,   4 Aug 19 16:09 /dev/ad0e
crw-r-----  2 root  operator  116,   5 Aug 19 16:09 /dev/ad0f
crw-r-----  2 root  operator  116,   6 Aug 19 16:09 /dev/ad0g
crw-r-----  2 root  operator  116,   7 Aug 19 16:09 /dev/ad0h

What I am confused about, aren't hard drives treated as block devices on =
most=20
systems? What am I missing?=20

Regards,

Weston


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