> 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''.
Then why do we still have ``cd''? Isn't a CDROM a direct access device? Last time I used my, I didn't have to read sector 1 before reading sector 9893. -- -- David (obr...@nuxi.com -or- obr...@freebsd.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
