> > IMHO "scd" ever has been broken and a bit incosistent and I never understood
> > why this device name came up at all (when I've started using Linux with 0.98.4
> > there only was /dev/sr?).
> >
> > there is sd*, st*, sg*, so what is wrong with sr* or good with scd* ??
> >
>
> I see scsi disk*, scsi tape*, scsi generic*. What's scsi r*. It makes
> more sense to me if it's scsi cd*.
'r' is for ROM (or Readonly) (optical readonly scsi media ID, see
TYPE_ROM in include/scsi/scsi.h).
same as we don't use /dev/shd*, /dev/scd* just breaks naming scheme
even if there would be no direct relation of 'r' to some magic meaning...
> Anybody read Anvlin's note?
which one? either I haven't seen it yet in this thread (some mails take days
to make it us in germany:( or I haven't saved it...
Harald
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