From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 30 06:39:21 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 96C6016A4CF for ; Mon, 30 Aug 2004 06:39:21 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mproxy.gmail.com (rproxy.gmail.com [64.233.170.199]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43E5643D4C for ; Mon, 30 Aug 2004 06:39:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from subhro.kar@gmail.com) Received: by mproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 80so79630rnl for ; Sun, 29 Aug 2004 23:39:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.38.179.69 with SMTP id b69mr316887rnf; Sun, 29 Aug 2004 23:39:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.38.206.18 with HTTP; Sun, 29 Aug 2004 23:39:20 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 12:09:20 +0530 From: Subhro To: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD. ORG" In-Reply-To: <4132C51F.4090203@computerdatasafe.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <200408301318.40078.summer@computerdatasafe.com.au> <4132C51F.4090203@computerdatasafe.com.au> cc: John Subject: Re: Which disk is which X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Subhro List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 06:39:21 -0000 What do u mean by difference? The device ad represents a IDE/ATA disk and the da device represents a SCSI disk. As you have got one IDE hard disk and one SCSI hard disk in your box, its showing up as ad0 and da0. But as you say that there is no SCSI in that box, then something seems to be wrong. Check your BIOS and disable any onboard SCSI controllers if present Regards S. On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 14:11:43 +0800, John wrote: > Subhro wrote: > > Read the handbook buddy, its clearly given there that > > There is no call for that rudeness. > > I'm looking at > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-steps.html > figure 2-20 which explains lots of things, but not the difference > between ad and da devices. > > > ad = IDE/ATA > > da = SCSI > > I have no SCSI in this box. > > > > > > > Regards > > S. > > > > On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 13:18:39 +0800, John Summerfield > > wrote: > > > >>I've booted a 5.2.1 miniinstall CD and got to the point where I choose which > >>disk to install onto. > >> > >>My choices are > >>ad0 > >>da0 > >> > >>Great. How do I know which disk is which? _I_ could work it out if the panel > >>displayed information such as > >>Brand > >>Capacity > >> > >>Note: DOS names would be worse than useless because I don't use DOS, and the > >>BIOS doesn't detect all my drives. > >> > >>The website doesn't help. > >> > >>I'm not on any list. Please respond by > >>a) Fixing the web page > >>b) Mailing me the necessary info (eg the fixed page when it's done) in case I > >>can't discover by other means which is which. > >> > >>_______________________________________________ > >>freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > >>http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > >>To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >> > > > > > > > > -- Subhro Sankha Kar School of Information Technology Block AQ-13/1 Sector V ZIP 700091 India