From 612c88c794c14dccdd6724fe2ec6bca37f41f509 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Chern Lee <chern@FreeBSD.org>
Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2001 22:36:01 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] * Place the list of disk devices back into Storage chapter
 without   the legacy version stuff--it is more appropriate here than the  
 install chapter

---
 .../books/handbook/disks/chapter.sgml         | 72 ++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 70 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disks/chapter.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disks/chapter.sgml
index 28d73ffd53..382bd7c28b 100644
--- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disks/chapter.sgml
+++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disks/chapter.sgml
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 <!--
      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">
@@ -43,7 +43,75 @@
       </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>