[rescue] OpenBSD

Linc Fessenden linc at thelinuxlink.net
Wed Jan 30 09:43:45 CST 2002


On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, Jeffrey S. Sharp wrote:

> On Sun, 2002-01-27 at 18:03, George Adkins wrote:
> 
> > Screw that.  I wand an SD0, as in /dev/sd0...  not some hokey
> > linux-looking /dev/ad0s1a garbage.  almost as if they were trying to
> > make it
> 
> I always wondered why the slices start at 1 and not 0.  I mean, you've got
> zero-indexed and one-indexed numbering in the same name.  That breaks a
> rule or two.

Linux doesn't use any ad0s1a garbage.  My scsi drives are /dev/sd0a,b,c,
and so on...  Same with scsi tapes, et al.

-Linc Fessenden

In the Beginning there was nothing, which exploded - Yeah right...



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