On Wednesday 24 January 2007 20:55, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> No, it's not a problem with your system, it's know behavior with
> vnd.

OK, good to know. Is it intended behavior?

> wd0c is not 'character' device, it's the 'raw' device (without any offset
> translation from the disklabel). it'a also the device that can always be
> openned, even for e.g. a removable media without media inserted.

Sorry about that. For some reason I started confusing raw and character. I 
blame it on too much linux exposure. Not that there's anything wrong with 
that ;)

> On NetBSD it's wd0d on i386 and xen, and wd0c everywhere else (for
> historical reasons)

That's put me straight. Thanks a lot ... you triggered knowledge that I would 
have strained to retrieve ... and probably googled for hours.

> > Actually ... just looking at disklabel ... is wd0c the whole disk minus
> > the mbr?
>
> It is if you installed NetBSD on the whole disk. It's the NetBSD partition
> of the disk in the mbr parititon table.

Makes perfect sense. Thanks again for your help.

Sarton