From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 19 14: 9:57 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtprelay2.adelphia.net (smtprelay2.adelphia.net [64.8.25.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B26D37B403 for ; Thu, 19 Jul 2001 14:09:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ipthomas_77@yahoo.com) Received: from scraemondaemon.my.domain ([24.49.96.3]) by smtprelay2.adelphia.net (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id GGQO5702.8F8; Thu, 19 Jul 2001 17:10:19 -0400 Received: (from ipt@localhost) by scraemondaemon.my.domain (8.11.4/8.11.4) id f6JL7rr01704; Thu, 19 Jul 2001 17:07:53 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from ipt) Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 17:07:53 -0400 From: User & Ian Patrick Thomas To: "Riley J. McIntire" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: One drive, 2 drive entries during 4.3 install Message-ID: <20010719170753.C1458@localhost> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from rjm@Wilshire.Net on Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 11:08:56AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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