The following physical devices are supported:

==Operating system support==
{|
! Device type
! FreeBSD
! macOS
! Linux
! Windows
|-
| SCSI Block device
| Yes
| No <ref name="macOS permissions">macOS only allows talking with MultiMedia devices</ref>
| Yes
| Yes
|-
| SCSI MultiMedia device
| Yes
| Not yet <ref name="macOS users">Support for MultiMedia devices in macOS will be added if users require it</ref>
| Yes
| Yes
|-
| SCSI Streaming device
| Yes
| No <ref name="macOS permissions"/>
| Yes
| Yes
|-
| Parallel ATA
| No <ref name="FreeBSD bug">Not supported due to upstream bug</ref>
| No <ref name="macOS permissions"/>
| Yes
| Yes
|-
| Serial ATA
| Yes
| No <ref name="macOS permissions"/>
| Yes
| Yes
|-
| USB
| Partial <ref name="usb">USB descriptors are not retrieved</ref>
| Partial <ref name="macOS">Only MultiMedia devices can be supported and descriptors will not be retrieved</ref>
| Yes
| Yes
|-
| FireWire
| Partial <ref name="firewire">FireWire descriptors are not retrieved</ref>
| Partial <ref name="macOS"/>
| Yes
| Partial <ref name="firewire">FireWire descriptors are not retrieved</ref>
|-
| PCMCIA
| Partial <ref name="pcmcia">PCMCIA CIS is not retrieved</ref>
| Partial <ref name="macOS"/>
| Yes
| Partial <ref name="pcmcia">PCMCIA CIS is not retrieved</ref>
|-
| SecureDigital / MultiMediaCard
| Not yet <ref name="FreeBSD sd">Support will come with FreeBSD 12-RELEASE</ref>
| No <ref name="macOS permissions"/>
| Yes
| Untested <ref name="Windows sd">Should work, untested due to not available hardware</ref>
|}

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