Which disk is which
John
summer at cds.merseine.nu
Mon Aug 30 00:20:40 PDT 2004
Subhro wrote:
>What do u mean by difference?
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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
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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."
>Regards
>S.
>
>On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 14:11:43 +0800, John <summer at computerdatasafe.com.au> wrote:
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>>Subhro wrote:
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>>>Read the handbook buddy, its clearly given there that
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>>There is no call for that rudeness.
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>>I'm looking at
>>http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-steps.html
>>figure 2-20 which explains lots of things, but not the difference
>>between ad and da devices.
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>>>ad = IDE/ATA
>>>da = SCSI
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>>I have no SCSI in this box.
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>>>Regards
>>>S.
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>>>On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 13:18:39 +0800, John Summerfield
>>><summer at computerdatasafe.com.au> wrote:
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>>>>I've booted a 5.2.1 miniinstall CD and got to the point where I choose which
>>>>disk to install onto.
>>>>
>>>>My choices are
>>>>ad0
>>>>da0
>>>>
>>>>Great. How do I know which disk is which? _I_ could work it out if the panel
>>>>displayed information such as
>>>>Brand
>>>>Capacity
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>>>>Note: DOS names would be worse than useless because I don't use DOS, and the
>>>>BIOS doesn't detect all my drives.
>>>>
>>>>The website doesn't help.
>>>>
>>>>I'm not on any list. Please respond by
>>>>a) Fixing the web page
>>>>b) Mailing me the necessary info (eg the fixed page when it's done) in case I
>>>>can't discover by other means which is which.
>>>>
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