From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 30 09:47:48 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6CD816A4CE; Mon, 30 Aug 2004 09:47:48 +0000 (GMT) Received: from vscan02.westnet.com.au (vscan02.westnet.com.au [203.10.1.132]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1ADC143D4C; Mon, 30 Aug 2004 09:47:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from summer@computerdatasafe.com.au) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03B921198F1; Mon, 30 Aug 2004 17:47:46 +0800 (WST) Received: from ns.computerdatasafe.com.au (dip-220-235-45-218.wa.westnet.com.au [220.235.45.218]) by vscan02.westnet.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 444BB118A07; Mon, 30 Aug 2004 17:47:45 +0800 (WST) Received: from computerdatasafe.com.au (Dolphin.demo.room [192.168.9.114]) by ns.computerdatasafe.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17BCB53835; Mon, 30 Aug 2004 17:47:44 +0800 (WST) Message-ID: <4132F7BF.8090209@computerdatasafe.com.au> Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 17:47:43 +0800 From: John User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 (X11/20040306) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <200408301318.40078.summer@computerdatasafe.com.au> <4132C51F.4090203@computerdatasafe.com.au> <4132D526.2010007@cds.merseine.nu> <20040830085504.GA1843@kayjay.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <20040830085504.GA1843@kayjay.xs4all.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: doc@FreeBSD.org cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD. ORG" Subject: Re: Which disk is which X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 09:47:49 -0000 Karel J. Bosschaart wrote: > 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. > Thanks Karel I do have a USB drive attached. It's a point which I think needs clarification on the web document I mentioned in another post. When I started this, I actually thought I was writing to someone who had the power to fix the problem. I've rechecked the page and now see I clicked the wrong link. I'm ccing doc in the hope the content of the page will be clarified. Doc: See fig 2-20 at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-steps.html