From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mon Aug 3 17:49:43 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3913E9B2F3F for ; Mon, 3 Aug 2015 17:49:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from paul@kraus-haus.org) Received: from mail-qk0-f180.google.com (mail-qk0-f180.google.com [209.85.220.180]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id EEFF2B50 for ; Mon, 3 Aug 2015 17:49:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from paul@kraus-haus.org) Received: by qkdv3 with SMTP id v3so53490838qkd.3 for ; Mon, 03 Aug 2015 10:49:41 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:content-type:mime-version:subject:from :in-reply-to:date:content-transfer-encoding:message-id:references:to; bh=9+QlGMskzPXEETvD1NdhxGDyFIGkA/gKqnIswmO/gTM=; b=dnn3NkVTJL7nh/3kYATyyGsV/EiLbZWb/S7SXIj9lTzxyze2TusLkuWicRBWj9Z/N6 7d2d7Ic4eiCAQxIb4eK6VJ9Umj2SawWc4fDlfFkNGGMgRqpz6JTOFY/efG0PUIsrksaU X+98d8ydIT03TuXqhViSCMqvBfPiSJE1bxSDtyMBYsaLE1qGMWIY62HQ7gPT/Jizk3r8 9tItVoad3aHw1RqIqRPHgUkAUtAOhMnMdzy4l/IyeTkiotFDDX/r0zfC695PtoGRe3Lh Va3eIVfFWaNCPrO2zbHAI90+LgpmkTwxEjLLt5a8+OxctOOBp5J/xHjvmsl0dbEvwC/2 muPA== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQkyw1n9bFw1UJj0HD5SrErlSemhHhuGHr+LTjFwl3A9cdzimoWPlSvJ6//9XNDwm21HLipE X-Received: by 10.55.41.35 with SMTP id p35mr26154791qkh.97.1438622346627; Mon, 03 Aug 2015 10:19:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mbp-1.thecreativeadvantage.com (mail.thecreativeadvantage.com. [96.236.20.34]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id q1sm1720016qkq.33.2015.08.03.10.19.04 (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Mon, 03 Aug 2015 10:19:04 -0700 (PDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 7.3 \(1878.6\)) Subject: Re: USB stick and some help with it. From: Paul Kraus In-Reply-To: <55BFA0BB.5080704@bananmonarki.se> Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2015 13:19:02 -0400 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <573761DA-A954-424A-998D-AD59204D4D79@kraus-haus.org> References: <55BF6AA0.2030802@bananmonarki.se> <55BF8824.9050803@gmail.com> <55BF8D65.6010404@bananmonarki.se> <55BF9024.6000409@gmail.com> <55BF9522.3@bananmonarki.se> <55BF964B.7080400@gmail.com> <55BF9817.4070409@bananmonarki.se> <55BF9954.2020005@gmail.com> <55BF9F26.8030003@bananmonarki.se> <55BF9FE3.3030606@gmail.com> <55BFA0BB.5080704@bananmonarki.se> To: FreeBSD Questions X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1878.6) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 03 Aug 2015 17:49:43 -0000 On Aug 3, 2015, at 13:11, Bernt Hansson wrote: > On 2015-08-03 19:07, jd1008 wrote: >>=20 >> OK, so in your installation what do you see in /dev as far as disk = devices that are raw >> (i.e. their name starts with r)? >=20 > None. >=20 > On FreeBSD, all block devices are in fact raw devices. Support for = non-raw devices was removed in FreeBSD 4.0 in order to simplify buffer = management and increase scalability and performance. An ls -l on my 10.1-RELEASE-p10 systems shows disk devices as character = special (=93raw=94) and does not show any block special devices. crw-r----- 1 root operator 0x76 Jul 21 10:30 ada0 crw-r----- 1 root operator 0x7a Jul 21 10:30 ada1 crw-r----- 1 root operator 0x89 Jul 21 10:30 ada1p1 crw-r----- 1 root operator 0x8b Jul 21 10:30 ada1p2 crw-r----- 1 root operator 0x8d Jul 21 10:30 ada1p3 crw-r----- 1 root operator 0x7c Jul 21 10:30 ada2 crw-r----- 1 root operator 0x90 Jul 21 10:30 ada2p1 crw-r----- 1 root operator 0x92 Jul 21 10:30 ada2p2 crw-r----- 1 root operator 0x94 Jul 21 10:30 ada2p3 crw-r----- 1 root operator 0x7e Jul 21 10:30 ada3 crw-r----- 1 root operator 0x80 Jul 21 10:30 ada4 crw-r----- 1 root operator 0x82 Jul 21 10:30 ada5 crw-r----- 1 root operator 0x84 Jul 21 10:30 ada6 crw-r----- 1 root operator 0x86 Jul 21 10:30 ada7 No SCSI (da) devices on this system.=20 -- Paul Kraus paul@kraus-haus.org