Block device
Max Laier
max at love2party.net
Tue Nov 4 07:03:38 PST 2008
On Tuesday 04 November 2008 15:32:01 d_elbracht wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> can someone please explain, why
> stat -x /dev/da1
>
> show the SCSI-Drive as a character-device ?
>
> Also, on the same device
>
> S_ISREG(st.st_mode) is false
>
> S_ISCHR(st.st_mode) is true
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/arch-handbook/driverbasics-block.html
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