[ale] instruction needed

[Sean Kilpatrick]

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On Wednesday 14 January 2004 10:48 am, Dow Hurst wrote:
| In Mike Panetta's words:
| The sg devices are not block devices, they are character 
| devices meant to be used when you want to send raw scsi 
| commands to a device (EG like cdrecord does to write to a
| CD) not to access them in the traditional manner.

Aha. This would explain why, when I run "ls -l sg0" I get

crw-rw----    1 kilpatms users     21,   0 Jan 30  2003 sg0


The"c" in "crw" is for "character."

Note this is a 21 byte file.

Thanks.

Sean

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