From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Dec 1 6:39:17 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from dozer.skynet.be (dozer.skynet.be [195.238.2.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE34414D70 for ; Wed, 1 Dec 1999 06:39:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from root@foxbert.skynet.be) Received: from foxbert.skynet.be (foxbert.skynet.be [195.238.1.45]) by dozer.skynet.be (8.9.3/odie-relay-v1.0) with ESMTP id PAA06141; Wed, 1 Dec 1999 15:39:09 +0100 (MET) Received: (from root@localhost) by foxbert.skynet.be (8.9.1/jovi-pop-2.1) id PAA11561; Wed, 1 Dec 1999 15:39:04 +0100 (MET) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: blk@foxbert.skynet.be Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: <14405.8810.777783.992833@trooper.velocet.net> Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1999 15:36:54 +0100 To: David Gilbert , stable@FreeBSD.ORG From: Brad Knowles Subject: Re: vinum experiences. Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 3:03 PM +0100 1999/12/1, Brad Knowles wrote: > 2. Replace the drive with an *identical* new one (same model > number, same number of heads and platters, same firmware revision, > etc...), and make sure that the new drive sits in the same > physical position in the SCSI chain, has the same SCSI id, same > termination status, etc... Oh, yeah -- you're also going to need to make sure that you've already run fdisk on this drive, and set up the volume tables to exactly match those of the drive it's replacing. Same with the drive label and volume partition map. -- These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy ____________________________________________________________________ |o| Brad Knowles, Belgacom Skynet NV/SA |o| |o| Systems Architect, News & FTP Admin Rue Col. Bourg, 124 |o| |o| Phone/Fax: +32-2-706.11.11/12.49 B-1140 Brussels |o| |o| http://www.skynet.be Belgium |o| \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ Unix is like a wigwam -- no Gates, no Windows, and an Apache inside. Unix is very user-friendly. It's just picky who its friends are. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message