From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 30 11:44:52 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 5DD8637B404 for ; Sun, 30 Mar 2003 11:44:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from gaultopia.org (yttrium.4ph.com [66.197.0.170]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6829943F85 for ; Sun, 30 Mar 2003 11:44:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from krs@gaultopia.org) Received: (qmail 77260 invoked from network); 30 Mar 2003 19:44:49 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO noodlexp) (68.65.109.195) by 66.197.13.166 with SMTP; 30 Mar 2003 19:44:49 -0000 Message-ID: <000701c2f6f5$17434460$0a00000a@noodlexp> From: "kirt" To: "freebsd-questions" Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2003 14:46:43 -0500 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Subject: switching IDE controllers 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: Sun, 30 Mar 2003 19:44:53 -0000 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 [38792/16/63] at ata2-master UDMA100 ad5: 38166MB [77545/16/63] at ata2-slave UDMA100 ad6: 38166MB [77545/16/63] at ata3-master UDMA100 ad7: 38166MB [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