Re: Fixed (hardisk) device names?

[Arnd Vehling]

Jose Alberto Guzman wrote:
Craig Sanders wrote:
and there are no raw devices on linux AFAIK.
>>
/dev/hd? ARE the raw devices.  
craig

 In the bsdish slang, raw devices are character devices, so /dev/hd? are 
not exactly raw devices, but block devices.
Not only in "bsdish" slang. Most other Unix boxes i know (HPUX, AIX, SOLARIS)
define the char device "/dev/r<something>" as the raw device. Linux is the 
only Unix OS i know which only has a block device available and i really 
wonder why.

There's support for accessing harddisks as character devices, see:
http://www.linuxdocs.org/HOWTOs/SCSI-2.4-HOWTO/rawdev.html
Great, ill look into that!
best regards,
  :: Arnd ::