From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 25 13:44:14 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from chrome.jdl.com (unknown [209.39.144.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65E7737B6A6 for ; Thu, 25 Jan 2001 13:43:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from chrome.jdl.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by chrome.jdl.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id PAA13742 for ; Thu, 25 Jan 2001 15:49:33 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from jdl@chrome.jdl.com) Message-Id: <200101252149.PAA13742@chrome.jdl.com> To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Western Digital Caviar /dev/ad1s1e vs /dev/wd1s1e ? Clarity-Index: null Threat-Level: none Software-Engineering-Dead-Seriousness: There's no excuse for unreadable code. Net-thought: If you meet the Buddha on the net, put him in your Kill file. Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 15:49:32 -0600 From: Jon Loeliger Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi Folks, I'm trying to build a new 4.2-stable system these days. It's actually going fairly well too! But I have one of those "did I miss a step?" sorts of questions... When I installed the whole mess originally, I had two Western Digital 1G Caviar drives hanging around the house (Yes, back then dirt still _was_ rocks!). And I installed both those drives just fine. Now I expected them to show up as /dev/wd's. Nah. They showed up as /dev/ad's. Uh, OK. I guess. And /etc/fstab thought so too. Uh, OK. So today I added a new, hot off the shelf Western Digital 40G Caviar drive and wanted to dice it up as /u03 and /u04 with roughly 20G each. I apparently successfully ran /stand/sysinstall to do the nasty formating, dicing, slicing and labeling for me! And I again thought I was talking about /dev/wd2s1e and s1f. So I modified /etc/fstab to have those new /u03 and /u04 mount points. Worked great. But still, this whole /dev/ad versus /dev/wd things lingers... I have a mix now... The list of devices in /dev/MAKEDEV isn't, uh, clear here either. How concerned should I be? Did I miss a step? Is there some funky name correlation I missed somewhere? Thanks! jdl PS -- And for those keeping track, yes, this is an effort to stop some apparent rpc.statd hacks as mumbled here before.. :-) PPS -- I'm not on the Questions list, so please CC: me directly too! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message