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* Place the list of disk devices back into Storage chapter without

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the legacy version stuff--it is more appropriate here than the
  install chapter
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Chern Lee 2001-10-08 22:36:01 +00:00
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<!--
The FreeBSD Documentation Project
$FreeBSD: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disks/chapter.sgml,v 1.62 2001/09/13 19:25:38 chern Exp $
$FreeBSD: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disks/chapter.sgml,v 1.63 2001/10/08 20:30:47 chern Exp $
-->
<chapter id="disks">
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</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="disks-naming">
<title>Device Names</title>
<para>The following is a list of physical storage devices
supported in FreeBSD, and the device names associated with
them.</para>
<table id="disk-naming-physical-table">
<title>Physical Disk Naming Conventions</title>
<tgroup cols="2">
<thead>
<row>
<entry>Drive type</entry>
<entry>Drive device name</entry>
</row>
</thead>
<tbody>
<row>
<entry>IDE hard drives</entry>
<entry><literal>ad</literal>
</row>
<row>
<entry>IDE CDROM drives</entry>
<entry><literal>acd</literal>
</row>
<row>
<entry>SCSI hard drives and USB Mass storage devices</entry>
<entry><literal>da</literal>
</row>
<row>
<entry>SCSI CDROM drives</entry>
<entry><literal>cd</literal></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>Assorted non-standard CDROM drives</entry>
<entry><literal>mcd</literal> for Mitsumi CD-ROM,
<literal>scd</literal> for Sony CD-ROM,
<literal>matcd</literal> for Matsushita/Panasonic CD-ROM
</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>Floppy drives</entry>
<entry><literal>fd</literal></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>SCSI tape drives</entry>
<entry><literal>sa</literal>
</row>
<row>
<entry>IDE tape drives</entry>
<entry><literal>ast</literal>
</row>
<row>
<entry>Flash drives</entry>
<entry><literal>fla</literal> for DiskOnChip Flash device
</row>
<row>
<entry>RAID drives</entry>
<entry><literal>myxd</literal> for Mylex, and
<literal>amrd</literal> for AMI MegaRAID,
<literal>idad</literal> for Compaq Smart RAID.
</row>
</tbody>
</tgroup>
</table>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="disks-adding">
<sect1info>
<authorgroup>