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Date:      Fri, 11 Feb 2005 00:16:52 +0100
From:      Godwin Stewart <gstewart@bonivet.net>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Adding an usb harddisk
Message-ID:  <20050211001652.082c24b5.gstewart@bonivet.net>
In-Reply-To: <420BE845.2060206@free.fr>
References:  <000b01c50fb1$28304fd0$9d00000a@jara2> <20050210142639.G26712@carver.gumbysoft.com> <420BE845.2060206@free.fr>

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On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 00:03:33 +0100, Ivan Roth <ivan.roth@free.fr> wrote:

> just note that it could not be /dev/daXXXX but /dev/adXXXX, e.g, da is 
> only for SCSI disks and ad is for IDE ones.

Only for *internal* IDE drives.

USB drives use umass which presents them to the system as SCSI drives, so 
/dev/da* is accurate.

- -- 
G. Stewart - gstewart@bonivet.net

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