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