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Re: Why are drives called "wd0", "wd1", etc?



On Thu, 4 Aug 2011, Daniel Carrera wrote:
On 08/04/2011 12:49 PM, Martin Husemann wrote:
Also "man wd" explains the drivers inheritage:

DESCRIPTION
      The wd driver supports hard disks that emulate the Western Digital
      WD100x.  This includes standard MFM, RLL, ESDI, IDE, and EIDE drives.


Thanks. That's very interesting. I didn't realize that something like that would be in a man page.

Having useful man pages is another difference between Linux and NetBSD...

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Stephen



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