CHAPTER 10 Special Files

10.2 SunOS 4.X

Under SunOS 4.X the /dev directory contains the special files. The standard devices are installed with /dev/MAKEDEV, which uses the mknod command to create them. For a SCSI disk, represented by sd and rsd for the block and character devices, respectively, we have:

0 brw-r----- 1 root operator 7, 0 Apr 30 1995 /dev/sd0a
0 brw-r----- 1 root operator 7, 1 Apr 30 1995 /dev/sd0b
0 brw-r----- 1 root operator 7, 2 Apr 30 1995 /dev/sd0c
0 brw-r----- 1 root operator 7, 3 Apr 30 1995 /dev/sd0d
0 brw-r----- 1 root operator 7, 4 Apr 30 1995 /dev/sd0e
0 brw-r----- 1 root operator 7, 5 Apr 30 1995 /dev/sd0f
0 brw-r----- 1 root operator 7, 6 Apr 30 1995 /dev/sd0g
0 brw-r----- 1 root operator 7, 7 Apr 30 1995 /dev/sd0h
0 crw-r----- 1 root operator 17, 0 Apr 30 1995 /dev/rsd0a
0 crw-r----- 1 root operator 17, 1 Apr 30 1995 /dev/rsd0b
0 crw-r----- 1 root operator 17, 2 Apr 30 1995 /dev/rsd0c
0 crw-r----- 1 root operator 17, 3 Apr 30 1995 /dev/rsd0d
0 crw-r----- 1 root operator 17, 4 Apr 30 1995 /dev/rsd0e
0 crw-r----- 1 root operator 17, 5 Apr 30 1995 /dev/rsd0f
0 crw-r----- 1 root operator 17, 6 Apr 30 1995 /dev/rsd0g
0 crw-r----- 1 root operator 17, 7 Apr 30 1995 /dev/rsd0h

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