Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1999 23:45:44 -0400 (EDT) From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> To: laander@megsinet.net Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Disk Naming Scheme & WordPerfect Install Help Message-ID: <199904190345.XAA06916@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> In-Reply-To: <000348cd0fbcb41e_mailit@megspo.megsinet.net> from Larry Anderson at "Apr 18, 99 04:21:39 pm"
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Larry Anderson wrote, > Hi, > Could someone point me toward or explain how the disk naming scheme works? > For example what does wd1 or wdc1 stand for? 'wd' is the device type for just about any IDE hard drive. It actually stands for 'Wester Digital.' See the wd(4) manpage for a little about that. 'wdc' is an IDE controller. You can have up to two, 'wdc0' and 'wdc1.' Each controller can have two devices. If they are all hard drives, they would be, wd0, wd1, wd2, and wd3, where 0 and 1 are master and slave, respectively, on the primary controller, and 2 and 3 are master and slave on the secondary. It is also possible to have other types of IDE devices like 'wcd0' (now called 'acd0' in 3.1) for the very common IDE CDROM. > Also, I got wordperfect for the ports but when I attempt to 'make install' > it gives me all sorts of errors about .ELF not being recognized. What does > this mean? I couldn't figure out what to use brandelf on to fix this. > Thanks. I had no trouble with adding WordPerfect to a 3.1 system from the ports. You are trying to do it with 3.1, right? For a question like this about specific problems with a port, you might be better off in -questions. (The first question, IMHO, is a very good one for newbies... if you don't expect too much detail. ;) -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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