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Date:      Sat, 15 May 2004 09:00:05 -0400
From:      Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
To:        Stephen Liu <satimis@yahoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Command to display the complete picture of hard drive
Message-ID:  <40A61455.4020200@mac.com>
In-Reply-To: <20040515090134.61415.qmail@web40310.mail.yahoo.com>
References:  <20040515090134.61415.qmail@web40310.mail.yahoo.com>

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Stephen Liu wrote:
[ ... ]
> Why the denotation of hard drive = /dev/ad4sla, not
> /dev/hda, etc.

FreeBSD isn't Linux.  ad referrs to "(A)TAPI (D)isk", the 4 refers to an IDE 
device which is after the "standard" primary & secondary channels (which are 
ad0 - ad3), and s1a refers to the first FDISK partition, slice a.

-- 
-Chuck



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