Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 21:45:55 +0000 From: simond@irrelevant.org To: Odhiambo Washington <wash@iconnect.co.ke> Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: mounting NTFS Message-ID: <20010116214555.A61917@irrelevant.org> In-Reply-To: <20010116220522.A2002@poeza.iconnect.co.ke>; from wash@iconnect.co.ke on Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 10:05:22PM %2B0300 References: <054F7DAA9E54D311AD090008C74CE9BD01F1E892@exchange.panasonicfa.com> <20010116170844.B48380@irrelevant.org> <20010116220522.A2002@poeza.iconnect.co.ke>
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On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 10:05:22PM +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > * simond@irrelevant.org <simond@irrelevant.org> [20010116 20:20]: writing on the subject 'Re: mounting NTFS' > simond> On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 11:04:32AM -0600, Zaitsau, Andrei wrote: > simond> > Okay, thanks for all your help. > simond> > But still I did not get something. > simond> > How come FreeBSD see my Hard Drive as 'wd0' and at the same time 'ad0' (in > simond> > dmesg or fdisk) > simond> > Is it some kind of kernel issue? Can someone explain it to me please? > simond> > Let's say I have Hard drive with 2 partitions on it > simond> > First partition is FreeBSD (active) > simond> > Second one is NTFS (win2k) > simond> > So it looks like > simond> > ad0s1 is FreeBSD > simond> > ad1s1 is NTFS ? > simond> > Am I right or wrong ? does ad?(0 or 1) means partition number, and ad(?)s* > simond> > means slice on that partition (like ad0s1a, 1a is a slice on a partition 0 > simond> > ?) > simond> > Please help me out with understanding this :) > simond> > simond> wd is the old IDE drivers which is mostly superceded by the ad drivers. > simond> > simond> ad0 is disk 0, ad1 is disk 1, ad0s1 is disk 0 partition 1, ad0s2 is partition > simond> 2, ad0s5 is extended partition 1, etc > > Our friend did not mention what version of FreeBSD he's running. > Or did I miss it? Good point, but I was sure he mentioned he'd seen ad* on his system so I just assumed that he had 4.x, oh well, never pays to make assumptions I guess :) -- Simon Dick simond@irrelevant.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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