Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 17:07:53 -0400 From: User & Ian Patrick Thomas <ipthomas_77@yahoo.com> To: "Riley J. McIntire" <rjm@Wilshire.Net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: One drive, 2 drive entries during 4.3 install Message-ID: <20010719170753.C1458@localhost> In-Reply-To: <NCBBLBILEPCHLFJAPIIPMECJHGAA.rjm@Wilshire.Net>; from rjm@Wilshire.Net on Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 11:08:56AM -0700 References: <NCBBLBILEPCHLFJAPIIPMECJHGAA.rjm@Wilshire.Net>
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As it was put forth by Riley J. McIntire on Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 11:08:56AM -0700... > Howdy, > > I'm installing 4.3 stable on a machine currently running 4.1-R. New > install, but keeping the current partitions. > > The machine is an old p166 but has a single new IBM 20GB drive in it. > What surprised me, and it didn't happen as I recall during the 4.1 > install, is two drives are showing up. wd0 and ad0. The drive > parameter are the same. What's happening here? Just a choice of > drivers? Is this intended--should I be concerned? > > I chose the ad0 driver. Also am using the 4.1 /stand/sysinstall and > editing the release to 4.3-20010718-STABLE. > > Thanks, > > Riley > > Arthur C. Clarke's Fourth Law : It has yet to be proven that > intelligence has any survival value. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message This may have been when drive identifiers went from wd to ad. Both labels mean the same thing. /usr/src/UPDATING may have more information as well as the freebsd-stable mailing list. Ian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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