From: Frank T Lofaro <fl0p+@andrew.cmu.edu> Subject: Re: /dev/tty00 vs /dev/cua00 and other device confusions Date: Mon, 3 May 1993 10:37:10 -0400
Excerpts from comp.os.linux: 3-May-93 Re: /dev/tty00 vs /dev/cua0..
Scott Telford <s.telford@ed.ac.uk> (895)
>Also, if we're following conventions, the SCSI tape device should be
>"rst" not "st", since it's a character device. Which reminds me:
>anybody considered addding "rhd"/"rsd" raw disk devices?
I've been trying to hack raw disk devices. I posted about what setup I
have to do to call the low-level disk read-write routines, but no one
has responded. Once I can get past that, I could hack the rest of the
driver without much work.