From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 15 05:58:18 2004 Return-Path: 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 6C88A16A4CE for ; Sat, 15 May 2004 05:58:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from out001.verizon.net (out001pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2B1543D1F for ; Sat, 15 May 2004 05:58:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mac.com ([68.161.84.3]) by out001.verizon.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.06 201-253-122-130-106-20030910) with ESMTP id <20040515125817.VWVL1464.out001.verizon.net@mac.com>; Sat, 15 May 2004 07:58:17 -0500 Message-ID: <40A61455.4020200@mac.com> Date: Sat, 15 May 2004 09:00:05 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040421 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Stephen Liu References: <20040515090134.61415.qmail@web40310.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20040515090134.61415.qmail@web40310.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at out001.verizon.net from [68.161.84.3] at Sat, 15 May 2004 07:58:16 -0500 cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Command to display the complete picture of hard drive X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 15 May 2004 12:58:18 -0000 Stephen Liu wrote: [ ... ] > Why the denotation of hard drive = /dev/ad4sla, not > /dev/hda, etc. FreeBSD isn't Linux. ad referrs to "(A)TAPI (D)isk", the 4 refers to an IDE device which is after the "standard" primary & secondary channels (which are ad0 - ad3), and s1a refers to the first FDISK partition, slice a. -- -Chuck