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Date:      Tue, 16 Jan 2001 17:08:44 +0000
From:      simond@irrelevant.org
To:        "Zaitsau, Andrei" <AZaitsau@panasonicfa.com>
Cc:        "'Odhiambo Washington'" <wash@iconnect.co.ke>, "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: mounting NTFS
Message-ID:  <20010116170844.B48380@irrelevant.org>
In-Reply-To: <054F7DAA9E54D311AD090008C74CE9BD01F1E892@exchange.panasonicfa.com>; from AZaitsau@panasonicfa.com on Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 11:04:32AM -0600
References:  <054F7DAA9E54D311AD090008C74CE9BD01F1E892@exchange.panasonicfa.com>

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On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 11:04:32AM -0600, Zaitsau, Andrei wrote:
> Okay, thanks for all your help.
> But still I did not get something.
> How come FreeBSD see my Hard Drive as 'wd0' and at the same time 'ad0' (in
> dmesg or fdisk)
> Is it some kind of kernel issue? Can someone explain it to me please?
> Let's say I have Hard drive with 2 partitions on it
> First partition is FreeBSD (active)
> Second one is NTFS (win2k)
> So it looks like
> ad0s1 is FreeBSD
> ad1s1 is NTFS ?
> Am I right or wrong ? does ad?(0 or 1) means partition number, and ad(?)s*
> means slice on that partition (like ad0s1a, 1a is a slice on a partition 0
> ?)
> Please help me out with understanding this :)

wd is the old IDE drivers which is mostly superceded by the ad drivers.

ad0 is disk 0, ad1 is disk 1, ad0s1 is disk 0 partition 1, ad0s2 is partition
2, ad0s5 is extended partition 1, etc

HTH

-- 
Simon Dick					simond@irrelevant.org


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