Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 17:47:43 +0800 From: John <summer@computerdatasafe.com.au> Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD. ORG" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Which disk is which Message-ID: <4132F7BF.8090209@computerdatasafe.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20040830085504.GA1843@kayjay.xs4all.nl> References: <200408301318.40078.summer@computerdatasafe.com.au> <b2807d040408292241fa24fbc@mail.gmail.com> <4132C51F.4090203@computerdatasafe.com.au> <b2807d0404082923395551577b@mail.gmail.com> <4132D526.2010007@cds.merseine.nu> <20040830085504.GA1843@kayjay.xs4all.nl>
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Karel J. Bosschaart wrote: > On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 03:20:06PM +0800, John wrote: > >>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." > > > External USB disks and USB pens (using umass) will also show up as a da0 > device. Perhaps you have one of them attached while booting? > > Karel. > Thanks Karel I do have a USB drive attached. It's a point which I think needs clarification on the web document I mentioned in another post. When I started this, I actually thought I was writing to someone who had the power to fix the problem. I've rechecked the page and now see I clicked the wrong link. I'm ccing doc in the hope the content of the page will be clarified. Doc: See fig 2-20 at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-steps.html
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