Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2003 14:46:43 -0500 From: "kirt" <krs@gaultopia.org> To: "freebsd-questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: switching IDE controllers Message-ID: <000701c2f6f5$17434460$0a00000a@noodlexp>
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i've checked the handbook, man pages, web, etc. for info regarding this and i'm still not entirely sure as to how i should go about it. FreeBSD daemon.pwnd.local 4.7-STABLE FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE #6: Sun Mar 30 08:50:48 EST 2003 root@daemon.pwnd.local:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/DAEMONSMP i386 dual AMD 1200 MP, 512 RAM my original FreeBSD server was an older PC that did not have an ATA100 IDE controller on-board, so i used a Promise TX2 ATA100 controller for all my drives, and just left the CD and DVD-roms on the slower on-board controller. now, later down the road, i've upgraded quite a bit and the server has an on-board AMD 766 ATA100 Controller and i'd like to add some drives to the setup. i figured now would be as good a time as any to move my main drive off the Promise card and on to the motherboard. here are the 4 drives i currently have (from dmesg) ad4: 19092MB <WDC WD200BB-75CLB0> [38792/16/63] at ata2-master UDMA100 ad5: 38166MB <WDC WD400BB-32CJA0> [77545/16/63] at ata2-slave UDMA100 ad6: 38166MB <WDC WD400BB-00CLB0> [77545/16/63] at ata3-master UDMA100 ad7: 38166MB <WDC WD400BB-75AUA1> [77545/16/63] at ata3-slave UDMA100 and the CD-ROM and DVD are on the on-board secondary IDE channel. i want to take ad4, which is where FreeBSD is installed and all of my main partitions are (/ , /var , /tmp , /usr , and the swap), and move it to the on-board controller. the other 3 drives are nothing but data for samba shares. i am not using the boot manager. i've gathered that i will have to change the mount points in /etc/fstab to reflect the new drive location (ad0), but past that i am unsure as to what all needs to be done to have the machine boot correctly. i'm also a little afraid to just "experiment" because i have a lot of really important stuff on here. =) thanks in advance. -- -- kirt -- www.pwnd.org
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