From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 16 9: 9:45 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bumper.jellybaby.net (bumper.jellybaby.net [194.159.247.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D651637B6A0 for ; Tue, 16 Jan 2001 09:09:25 -0800 (PST) Received: (from simond@localhost) by bumper.jellybaby.net (8.9.2/8.9.2) id RAA53401; Tue, 16 Jan 2001 17:08:44 GMT (envelope-from simond) Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 17:08:44 +0000 From: simond@irrelevant.org To: "Zaitsau, Andrei" Cc: "'Odhiambo Washington'" , "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: mounting NTFS Message-ID: <20010116170844.B48380@irrelevant.org> References: <054F7DAA9E54D311AD090008C74CE9BD01F1E892@exchange.panasonicfa.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <054F7DAA9E54D311AD090008C74CE9BD01F1E892@exchange.panasonicfa.com>; from AZaitsau@panasonicfa.com on Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 11:04:32AM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 Please help me out with understanding this :) wd is the old IDE drivers which is mostly superceded by the ad drivers.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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message