Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 20:03:03 -0800 From: je killen <jekillen@prodigy.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: SCSI on v6.0 Message-ID: <1401842bb9c30b8955c8cc09126e71b4@prodigy.net>
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Hello; I have installed FreeBSD v6.0 and all is fine so far. I had the intention to install two SCSI drives in this system after initial install to get it together step by step. I have several Books on FreeBSD including the hard copy manuals that are obtained from FreeBSD Mall, I.E. user and admin manuals. Reading up on the use of SCSI on FreeBSD i am instructed by one of the books, I don't remember which right now that I have to add a kernel option and rebuild the kernel with SCSI support. But tonight I went ahead and installed the adapter card, and the two drives and booted to see if the hardware setup had any complaints. All seems to be well with it but I can't even hear the SCSI drives. I would expect 15k drives to make some whining noise, maybe not. I am using LSI Logic adapter card (haven't checked for specific FreeBSD support). On boot there was a line to the effect 'waiting for SCSI device to settle'. This leads me to believe that there may already be SCSI support in v6.0. Q: Is this in fact true (v6.0 has SCSI support by default)? None of the books are really current enough for v6.0 specific info as such. On the same subject, Q: What is the best way to proceed with formating and partitioning the drives? Redo installation process, or is there away to set them up without reinstallation? I will want to assign one of the SCSI drives to the /usr file system and the other to the /var file system when the one ATA drive that is being used has it all now. Anyhow, I'm being lazy with this query and I do intend to RTFM. Thank you in advance; Jeff k
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