From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 2 13:21:56 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA16045 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 2 Mar 1998 13:21:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA16027 for ; Mon, 2 Mar 1998 13:21:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA19284; Mon, 2 Mar 1998 13:21:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 13:21:42 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Christopher W Ramsay cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD, boot-up and SCSI. In-Reply-To: <1.5.4.16.19980228162818.1c3f55b4@top.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 28 Feb 1998, Christopher W Ramsay wrote: > First I would like to thank Doug White (dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) > and Greg Lehey (grog@lemis.com) for the problem I was having with my mail > reader. You're welcome! Let me get to the guts of this: > From what documentation I've been reading, I get the impression that > there are two ways of controlling my SCSI drive. Either through the > bios level or the DOS level. When FreeBSD reformatted the SCSI drive, > erasing the existing DOS format, my existing DOS system lost the ability > of contacting the G drive. Even something as simple as, format g:, will > not work. This is because FreeBSD uses it's own slice type and filesystem that is not compatable with DOS. If you want to bring it back you'll have to delete the existing slice with FDISK and create a new DOS partition there. If FreeBSD sees your SCSi controller, which it appears to, you are in good shape. Sounds like you're all set to go. Anything else? > I'm kind of a hobbyist. In fact my case is nothing more than an AT > case hack-sawed out and ground down with a drill to accept the ATX style. You hope you didn't cut any traces in the layers inside the board, eh? :) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message