Date: Sat, 15 May 2004 09:00:05 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Stephen Liu <satimis@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Command to display the complete picture of hard drive Message-ID: <40A61455.4020200@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <20040515090134.61415.qmail@web40310.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20040515090134.61415.qmail@web40310.mail.yahoo.com>
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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
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