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Date:      Fri, 9 Jun 2006 13:24:53 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
To:        darryl@osborne-ind.com
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Move hard drive
Message-ID:  <200606091724.k59HOrdr010901@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <002701c68be8$b0cd5cc0$0701a8c0@darryl>

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> Greetings,
> I am running FreeBSD 6.0 - release on a box.  I have setup several
> applications, etc.  I did this on computer A.   Computer B is a 
> production machine and didn't want it offline while I figured out
> all the niggly bits.   Can I take the SCSI disk from A and put in
> in B ?   I did not customize the kernel.

If they are both SCSI drives and the two machines are sufficiently
similar - no special compiled in features, NIC cards use the same
drivers to they address the same, etc, then it should be no problem.

We do it all the time.

////jerry

> 
> thanks,
> Darryl
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