2.11BSD Device Names

Ethan Dicks ethan.dicks at gmail.com
Fri Sep 16 14:59:57 CDT 2016


On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 2:52 PM, Glen Slick <glen.slick at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 1:13 PM, Ethan Dicks <ethan.dicks at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> My question is, what is the device name in /dev for the first drive on the
>>> second controller?
>>
>> Isn't it rb?
>
> [ra8a - ra8h] block, major numer 5
> [rra8a - rra8h] character/raw, major number 14

I must be used to some DECism in Ultrix, then.  Wouldn't surprise me
if they did something different from real BSD (that or I'm
misremembering something else from 30 years ago).

-ethan


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