The following is a list of physical storage devices supported in FreeBSD, and the
device names associated with them.
Table 18-1. Physical Disk Naming Conventions
| 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. |
