Re: Why are drives called "wd0", "wd1", etc?

[Daniel Carrera <dcarrera%gmail.com@localhost>]

On 08/04/2011 01:23 PM, Joost van de Griek wrote:
> On 4 August 2011 13:07, David Lord<netbsd%lordynet.org@localhost>  wrote:
>
> > # man wd
> >
> >       wd -- WD100x compatible hard disk driver
>
> Huh, go figure. I always took it to mean "winchester drive".

And WD100x is itself named after Western Digital (says the man page). 
That was interesting.

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