The following is a list of physical storage devices supported in FreeBSD, and the device names associated with them.
Drive type | Drive device name |
---|---|
IDE hard drives | ad |
IDE CDROM drives | acd |
SCSI hard drives and USB Mass storage devices | da |
SCSI CDROM drives | cd |
Assorted non-standard CDROM drives | mcd for Mitsumi CD-ROM and
scd for Sony CD-ROM devices
|
Floppy drives | fd |
SCSI tape drives | sa |
IDE tape drives | ast |
Flash drives | fla for DiskOnChip® Flash device |
RAID drives | aacd for Adaptec® AdvancedRAID,
mlxd and mlyd
for Mylex®,
amrd for AMI MegaRAID®,
idad for Compaq Smart RAID,
twed for 3ware® RAID. |
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