<<On Wed, 17 Mar 1999 11:39:18 -0800, "David O'Brien" <obr...@nuxi.com> said:
> But that is not the "deal" that was presented to us when we had to endure > the gratuitous sd->da name change. The whole justification was a single > device name for disks (and what ever else is direct access). No, that was not the justification for the name change. The justification (Justinfication?) was that in SCSI terminology, these things -- not all of which are disks -- are called ``direct access'' devices. Similarly, `sa' is ``sequential access''. ATAPI had nothing whatsoever to do with it. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same woll...@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
