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From: se@freebsd.org (Stefan Esser)
To: mike@sentex.net (Mike Tancsa)
Cc: questions@freebsd.org, scsi@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: New SCSI card... Old HD..
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On Feb 21, mike@sentex.net (Mike Tancsa) wrote:
> 
> I am going to be adding a NCR based SCSI controller to our news machine to
> take some of the load off the 2940 thats in there and also to allow us to
> add another disk.  My question is, will I have to low level format the
> drive that is currently being used on the Adaptec ? If so, what are the
> procedures for it... The new SCSI card is just a ASUS 200 (NCR 810), so I
> doubt it has too many smarts in it in terms of disk formatting etc...

The NCR will accept your drives as they are.
Just mount the file systems ...

Regards, STefan