From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 16 10:26:44 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6972416A4B3 for ; Tue, 16 Sep 2003 10:26:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from server.rucus.ru.ac.za (server.rucus.ru.ac.za [146.231.115.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 396D343FA3 for ; Tue, 16 Sep 2003 10:26:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drs@rucus.ru.ac.za) Received: (qmail 28398 invoked by uid 85); 16 Sep 2003 17:26:31 -0000 Received: (qmail-scanner-1.20rc2 28397 invoked by uid 82); 16 Sep 2003 17:26:31 -0000 Received: from bashir.dsl.ru.ac.za (146.231.113.19) by server.rucus.ru.ac.za with SMTP; 16 Sep 2003 17:26:31 -0000 Received: (qmail 1461 invoked by uid 1001); 16 Sep 2003 17:26:31 -0000 Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 19:26:31 +0200 From: David =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sieb=F6rger?= To: Charles Howse Message-ID: <20030916172631.GA1438@rucus.net> References: <003701c37c49$0827f8c0$04fea8c0@moe> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <003701c37c49$0827f8c0$04fea8c0@moe> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Repost: Drive jumpers - was: Boot Timeout? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 17:26:44 -0000 At 1:52 PM on Tuesday 16 September 2003, Charles Howse wrote: > I currently have a HDD as the primary master, a CDROM as the secondary > master and a HDD as the secondary slave on my FBSD box. > > FBSD detects them as ad0, acd0 and ad3, respectively. > > If I change the drive jumpers to make the HDD the secondary master and > the CDROM the secondary slave, is it correct to assume that FBSD will > detect them as ad1 and acd0? ad2, rather. Assuming that you use the ATA_STATIC_ID kernel option, ATA drives will be numbered like this: ad0 primary master ad1 primary slave ad2 secondary master ad3 secondary slave ... > This configuration will break /etc/fstab, as well as anything else that > references the HDD on the secondary IDE channel. Other than /etc/fstab > and personal files, what should I edit to reflect the hardware changes? When I've made those sorts of changes, I've only ever had to change fstab and my scripts that run dump(8). -- David Siebörger drs@rucus.ru.ac.za