device names

[Karthik Vishwanath]

Are there redundancies in /dev/[devices], for instance there is a 
/dev/hdd, /dev/hdd1, /dev/hdd2, /dev/hdd3 and /dev/hdd4. What is the 
reason? 

Thanks,
-Karthik.

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