Date: Sat, 15 May 2004 17:33:06 +0800 (CST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Stephen=20Liu?= <satimis@yahoo.com> To: BSD <bsd@xtremedev.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Command to display the complete picture of hard drive Message-ID: <20040515093306.88351.qmail@web40312.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20040515091017.GA69279@Amber.XtremeDev.com>
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Hi, Tks for your advice. - snip - > > Why the denotation of hard drive = /dev/ad4sla, > not > > /dev/hda, etc. > > Because afaik, /dev/hda is a Linuxism. The > /dev/ad2s1a convention has > been there long before Linux was even conceived of. I suppose '/dev/ad2sla' with the HD connected to the IDE slot of motherboard. For '/dev/ad4sla' the HD is connected to a controller card as in my case. If I am wrong please correct me. TIA B.R. Stephen _______________________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com.hk address at http://mail.english.yahoo.com.hk
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