Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Larger dev_t | Date | Wed, 28 Mar 2001 03:19:02 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> Exactly. It's just that for historical reasons, I think the major for > "disk" should be either the old IDE or SCSI one, which just can show more > devices. That way old installers etc work without having to suddenly start > knowing about /dev/disk0.
They will mostly break. Installers tend to parse /proc/scsi and have fairly complex ioctl based relationships based on knowing ide v scsi.
/dev/disc/ is a little un-unix but its clean
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