Re: CD drives on vax

[David Brownlee <abs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On 21 June 2012 14:58, Johnny Billquist <bqt%update.uu.se@localhost> wrote:
>>
>> What do people think about rrd to match the dec device name, or would
>> racd or similar play better with people?
>
> I thought the problem was that it wasn't called cd, explicitly. If we can
> pick any other random name, then sure, go ahead. Although I'm pretty used to
> look for /dev/ra* for my CD anyway, so I don't really have a problem keeping
> it the way it is today either.

My primary goal is was to allow sysinst to distinguish CD devices from
disk devices, but I think its actually generally cleaner to
distinguish them in the namespace, exactly as per rx devices, which
then makes it simpler for sysinst and humans :)