In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bruce Evans writes: >On Sat, 5 Oct 2002, Steve Kargl wrote: > >> > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Steve Kargl w >> > rites: >> > >root[208] cdcontrol play >> > >cdcontrol: no CD device name specified, defaulting to /dev/cd0c >> > >cdcontrol: /dev/cd0cc: No such file or directory >> > > >> > >Why is an extra "c" appended to cd0c? > >The first "c" is part of the standard name for the whole of a (labelled) >disk device.
It's not any "standard name". It is a convention used on a minority of UNIX platforms out there, and it is certainly not "standard" even for BSD based systems. It is also illogical, counter-intuitive and prone to mistakes. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
