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Date:      Sun, 21 Jun 1998 19:57:08 -0700
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        robert@chalmers.com.au, freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: How do I label second disk slices?
Message-ID:  <19980621195708.56643@papillon.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <358C4583.AC5EF174@chalmers.com.au>; from Robert Chalmers on Sun, Jun 21, 1998 at 09:28:03AM %2B1000
References:  <358C4583.AC5EF174@chalmers.com.au>

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On Sun, 21 June 1998 at  9:28:03 +1000, Robert Chalmers wrote:
> If my primary disk slices are a,b,c,d,e,f, do I make my second disk slices
> g,h,i,j,k and so on?

No.  Each disk has up to eight slices called a to h.  Your first IDE
disk is wd0, the second wd1, so you have sixteen devices wd0a to wd0h
and wd1a to wd1h.

Greg
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