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<chapter id="disks">
<title>Disks</title>
<sect1 id="disks-synopsis">
<title>Synopsis</title>
<para>This chapter covers how to use disks, whether physical,
memory, or networked, on FreeBSD.</para>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="disks-naming">
<title>Disk naming</title>
<para>Physical drives come in two main flavours,
<acronym>IDE</acronym>, or <acronym>SCSI</acronym>; but there
are also drives backed by RAID controllers, flash memory, and so
forth. Since these behave quite differently, they have their
own drivers and devices.</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> in 4.0-RELEASE,
<literal>wd</literal> before 4.0-RELEASE.</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>IDE CDROM drives</entry>
<entry><literal>acd</literal> in 3.1-RELEASE,
<literal>wcd</literal> before 4.0-RELEASE.</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>SCSI hard drives</entry>
<entry><literal>da</literal> from 3.0-RELEASE,
<literal>sd</literal> before 3.0-RELEASE.</entry>
</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> from 3.0-RELEASE,
<literal>st</literal> before 3.0-RELEASE.</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>IDE tape drives</entry>
<entry><literal>ast</literal> from 4.0-RELEASE,
<literal>wst</literal> before 4.0-RELEASE.</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>Flash drives</entry>
<entry><literal>fla</literal> for DiskOnChip Flash device
from 3.3-RELEASE.</entry>
</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.
from 4.0-RELEASE. <literal>id</literal> between
3.2-RELEASE and 4.0-RELEASE.</entry>
</row>
</tbody>
</tgroup>
</table>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="disks-adding">
<title>Adding disks</title>

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<chapter id="disks">
<title>Disks</title>
<sect1 id="disks-synopsis">
<title>Synopsis</title>
<para>This chapter covers how to use disks, whether physical,
memory, or networked, on FreeBSD.</para>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="disks-naming">
<title>Disk naming</title>
<para>Physical drives come in two main flavours,
<acronym>IDE</acronym>, or <acronym>SCSI</acronym>; but there
are also drives backed by RAID controllers, flash memory, and so
forth. Since these behave quite differently, they have their
own drivers and devices.</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> in 4.0-RELEASE,
<literal>wd</literal> before 4.0-RELEASE.</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>IDE CDROM drives</entry>
<entry><literal>acd</literal> in 3.1-RELEASE,
<literal>wcd</literal> before 4.0-RELEASE.</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>SCSI hard drives</entry>
<entry><literal>da</literal> from 3.0-RELEASE,
<literal>sd</literal> before 3.0-RELEASE.</entry>
</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> from 3.0-RELEASE,
<literal>st</literal> before 3.0-RELEASE.</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>IDE tape drives</entry>
<entry><literal>ast</literal> from 4.0-RELEASE,
<literal>wst</literal> before 4.0-RELEASE.</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>Flash drives</entry>
<entry><literal>fla</literal> for DiskOnChip Flash device
from 3.3-RELEASE.</entry>
</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.
from 4.0-RELEASE. <literal>id</literal> between
3.2-RELEASE and 4.0-RELEASE.</entry>
</row>
</tbody>
</tgroup>
</table>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="disks-adding">
<title>Adding disks</title>