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

["Jeremy C. Reed" <reed%reedmedia.net@localhost>]

On Thu, 4 Aug 2011, Adam Hoka wrote:

> On Thu, 04 Aug 2011 08:44:24 -0400
> Alex Goncharov <alex-goncharov%comcast.net@localhost> wrote:
> 
> > ,--- You/Stephen (Thu, 4 Aug 2011 13:16:07 +0100 (BST)) ----*
> > | Having useful man pages is another difference between Linux and NetBSD...
> > 
> > Please give one example of a manual page, for the same functionality,
> > where the NetBSD version is superior to one in (a recent distribution
> > of) Linux (or FreeBSD, for that matter.)
> > 
> > (I feel you won't.)
> > 
> > -- Alex -- alex-goncharov%comcast.net@localhost --
> 
> Any kernel driver.

(Let's exclude FreeBSD from this argument.)

Historically Linux's, Glibc's man pages have been lacking. They are much 
better now, but in many cases the manual pages are maintained and 
distributed and packaged by those separate from the developers of the 
software. (For example, "man-pages" package for Red Hat has a variety of 
manuals that should have been supplied by upstream vendors and this 
bundled with their respective packages. They are playing catchup.

As for a problem (in this old Red Hat), in man-pages-2.39-12.el5, the 
sd(4) references scsi(4) which does not exist :)