From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 25 6:34:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71D9537B401 for ; Wed, 25 Sep 2002 06:34:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from corten2.billschoolcraft.com (adsl-63-193-247-201.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.193.247.201]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8DC543E3B for ; Wed, 25 Sep 2002 06:34:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bill@wiliweld.com) Received: from corten8.billschoolcraft.com ([192.168.7.8] helo=localhost) by corten2.billschoolcraft.com with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1 (Debian)) id 17uCJE-0008K4-00 for ; Wed, 25 Sep 2002 06:34:32 -0700 Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 06:40:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Bill Schoolcraft X-X-Sender: bill@corten8 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: [ad8] external laptop drive? Message-ID: System-ID: [en] (I; Linux i86pc) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello Family, I have a laptop (Toshiba-1715) running FreeBSD-4.6.2 and I have an external IBM_Travelstar 8-gig drive with of course a SCSI based PCMCIA card to connect to the IDE drive, all of which are from IBM. On boot the drive is fully recognized in "dmesg" with: ad8: 7815MB [15880/16/63] at ata4-master BIOSPIO And I'm assuming that the "ad8" means /dev/ad8 but my /dev/ad* directory entries end at /dev/ad3s4. Can anyone share any information on this? TIA -- |<--------------------------------72---------------------------------->| Bill Schoolcraft PO Box 210076 -o) San Francisco CA 94121 /\ "UNIX, A Way Of Life." _\_v http://forwardslashunix.com/raw To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message