> Exactly. It's just that for historical reasons, I think the major for
> "disk" should be either the old IDE or SCSI one, which just can show more
> devices. That way old installers etc work without having to suddenly start
> knowing about /dev/disk0.
They will mostly break. Installers tend to parse /proc/scsi and have fairly
complex ioctl based relationships based on knowing ide v scsi.
/dev/disc/ is a little un-unix but its clean
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