Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 10:55:04 +0200 From: "Karel J. Bosschaart" <karelj@kayjay.nl> To: John <summer@cds.merseine.nu> Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD. ORG" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Which disk is which Message-ID: <20040830085504.GA1843@kayjay.xs4all.nl> 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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On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 03:20:06PM +0800, John wrote: > Subhro wrote: > > >What do u mean by difference? > > > > > > That page does not mention da devices at all. > > >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 > > > > > There are no SCSI controllers. It's your basic cheap Acer desktop > Pentium III of a few years ago. > > As I said already, "I have no SCSI in this box." External USB disks and USB pens (using umass) will also show up as a da0 device. Perhaps you have one of them attached while booting? Karel.
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