> After some more searching, it appears that the whole disk device
> suffix has changed from 'c' to 'd'

Yes and no.  On i386, it's "always" been d.  (If you come from a SPARC
background, as seems likely given the list this is on, you will be used
to c, but it's actually port-specific.)

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