[rescue] Re: Iris 5.3CD

[Gerhard Lenerz]

Hello,

Thursday, September 18, 2003, 6:28:58 PM, you wrote:

> No, what is the rscd* device for?  Whatever it is, it's
> not located on any of my Slackware boxen.

  raw (character based / unbuffered) device access. The "Disks and
  Filesystem" book has 2 and a half sentences more in chapter one:

http://techpubs.sgi.com/library/tpl/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi/0650/bks/SGI_Admin/books/IA_DiskFiles/sgi_html/ch01.html#LE33535-PARENT


Gerhard