From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 24 14:47:14 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7209C16A4CE for ; Wed, 24 Mar 2004 14:47:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from cmsrelay02.mx.net (cmsrelay02.mx.net [165.212.11.111]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 42DC743D39 for ; Wed, 24 Mar 2004 14:47:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from noackjr@alumni.rice.edu) Received: from uadvg130.cms.usa.net (165.212.11.130) by cmsoutbound.mx.net with SMTP; 24 Mar 2004 22:47:13 -0000 Received: from optimator.noacks.org [65.69.2.38] by uadvg130.cms.usa.net (ASMTP/noackjr@usa.net) via mtad (C8.MAIN.3.13N) with ESMTP id 667icXwvL0384M30; Wed, 24 Mar 2004 22:47:10 GMT X-USANET-Auth: 65.69.2.38 AUTH noackjr@usa.net optimator.noacks.org Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by optimator.noacks.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F22D6103; Wed, 24 Mar 2004 16:47:10 -0600 (CST) Received: from optimator.noacks.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (optimator.noacks.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 88591-05; Wed, 24 Mar 2004 16:47:08 -0600 (CST) Received: from alumni.rice.edu (optimator [192.168.1.11]) by optimator.noacks.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98B966101; Wed, 24 Mar 2004 16:47:08 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <40620FEB.7080109@alumni.rice.edu> Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 16:47:07 -0600 From: Jon Noack User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5+ (Windows/20040312) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Scott Long References: <406205EE.8050506@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <406205EE.8050506@freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at noacks.org cc: "'current@freebsd.org'" cc: 'Kris Kennaway' Subject: Re: LOR on current X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: noackjr@alumni.rice.edu List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 22:47:14 -0000 On 3/24/2004 4:04 PM, Scott Long wrote: > Don Bowman wrote: >> can i switch asr to aac without reformatting my disks? > > I beleive so, but I'll have to get back to you on the details. > There might be some gotchas. I looked through the whole thread, so if I missed something and this is a stupid question, I apologize: I have an Adaptec 2100S (uses an i960RS according to the ASR source) -- does the above mean I can use the AAC driver instead of the ASR driver (after adding the device id, of course)? If you're not sure but optimistic, I'd be happy to give it a shot and report back. I have free disk space on one of my machines at home (primarily Windows but I've run FreeBSD on it before). I'd prefer if it wouldn't nuke other partitions, but it's mostly games so it wouldn't be a huge loss if it did. Jon P.S. Just be thankful you're not running Windows 9x. The 2100S has Windows 9x drivers, but even the most recently released version causes extensive file corruption. An IDE drive on the same machine is fine with Windows 9x. It seems to work fine with Windows 2000/XP, however.