Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 09:54:27 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: John <summer@cds.merseine.nu> Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD. ORG" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Which disk is which Message-ID: <20040830085427.GA23602@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <4132D526.2010007@cds.merseine.nu> References: <200408301318.40078.summer@computerdatasafe.com.au> <b2807d040408292241fa24fbc@mail.gmail.com> <4132C51F.4090203@computerdatasafe.com.au> <b2807d0404082923395551577b@mail.gmail.com> <4132D526.2010007@cds.merseine.nu>
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--uAKRQypu60I7Lcqm Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 03:20:06PM +0800, John wrote: > Subhro wrote: > >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 > >=20 > > > There are no SCSI controllers. It's your basic cheap Acer desktop=20 > Pentium III of a few years ago. >=20 > As I said already, "I have no SCSI in this box." USB disks and memory sticks show up as da devices as well. You can get more information about the device mappings if you boot up the disk2 .iso -- that's the recovery disk, so it won't try and install anything. It will give you a single-user mode shell[1] running entirely off CDRom. From there, you can use the dmesg(8) command to look at the results of the kernel scanning and identifying your hardware. Cheers, Matthew [1] If you find the shell interface problematic, you could do the same trick using a FreeSBIE disk -- http://www.freesbie.org/=20 --=20 Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK --uAKRQypu60I7Lcqm Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBMutDiD657aJF7eIRAmAIAKC0sxBzViQWxOdRckaRHoXA69CJLACgtTzi UezvLolPcUxh7V4x2DZcIt0= =Y7Ox -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --uAKRQypu60I7Lcqm--
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