From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 19 19: 6:34 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-27-141-144.mmcable.com [24.27.141.144]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EE68837B401 for ; Thu, 19 Jul 2001 19:06:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 57027 invoked by uid 100); 20 Jul 2001 02:06:29 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15191.37413.795697.368820@guru.mired.org> Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 21:06:29 -0500 To: "Riley J. McIntire" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: One drive, 2 drive entries during 4.3 install In-Reply-To: <3814057@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ 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 Riley J. McIntire types: > 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? You've nailed it. There are two drivers for IDE disks - ad and wd. It's showing you both of them. > I chose the ad0 driver. Also am using the 4.1 /stand/sysinstall and > editing the release to 4.3-20010718-STABLE. ad is the newer driver, and wd is slated for removal, so you made the correct choice. You probably shouldn't stretch sysinstall from 4.1 to 4.3-stable, though. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message