From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 30 07:20:40 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F0C816A4CE for ; Mon, 30 Aug 2004 07:20:40 +0000 (GMT) Received: from vscan01.westnet.com.au (vscan01.westnet.com.au [203.10.1.131]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA21A43D48 for ; Mon, 30 Aug 2004 07:20:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from summer@cds.merseine.nu) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Postfix) with ESMTP id D27E4514C0; Mon, 30 Aug 2004 15:20:37 +0800 (WST) Received: from ns.computerdatasafe.com.au (dip-220-235-45-218.wa.westnet.com.au [220.235.45.218]) by vscan01.westnet.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6595B513A8; Mon, 30 Aug 2004 15:20:34 +0800 (WST) Received: from cds.merseine.nu (Dolphin.demo.room [192.168.9.114]) by ns.computerdatasafe.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D77653835; Mon, 30 Aug 2004 15:20:07 +0800 (WST) Message-ID: <4132D526.2010007@cds.merseine.nu> Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 15:20:06 +0800 From: John User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 (X11/20040306) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Subhro References: <200408301318.40078.summer@computerdatasafe.com.au> <4132C51F.4090203@computerdatasafe.com.au> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD. ORG" Subject: Re: Which disk is which X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 07:20:40 -0000 Subhro wrote: >What do u mean by difference? > > 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 > > 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 wrote: > > >>Subhro wrote: >> >> >>>Read the handbook buddy, its clearly given there that >>> >>> >>There is no call for that rudeness. >> >>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. >> >> >> >>>ad = IDE/ATA >>>da = SCSI >>> >>> >>I have no SCSI in this box. >> >> >> >> >> >>>Regards >>>S. >>> >>>On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 13:18:39 +0800, John Summerfield >>> wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>>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 >>>> >>>>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. >>>> >>>>_______________________________________________ >>>>freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >>>>http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >>>>To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> > > > >