[ale] instruction needed

[Geoffrey]

Sean Kilpatrick wrote:
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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
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> 
> The"c" in "crw" is for "character."

Actually, the c says character, the rw are perms.

> 
> Note this is a 21 byte file.

No, actually, that's the major device number.  The 0 is the minor device 
number.

> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Sean
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