Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2001 13:04:50 -0500 (EST) From: Kenneth Wayne Culver <culverk@wam.umd.edu> To: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> Cc: Christopher Rued <c.rued@xsb.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Must I s/wd0/ad0/ ? Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0101021304150.4336-100000@rac4.wam.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <20010102190146.A10427@student.uu.se>
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> On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 12:37:25PM -0500, Christopher Rued wrote: > > I recently upgraded to RELENG_4_1_1_RELEASE, and followed the > > instructions for upgrading from 3.x-STABLE in UPDATING. > > > > I followed the instructions for creating the ad.s. devices, and had no > > problems with that, but nowhere did it say to change my fstab to use > > the new devices. > > > > My system seems to be working fine with the old wd.s. devices, and I was > > wondering why this is. Did I do something wrong so that the support for > > these devices was not removed (as I believe it should have been)? > > > > I haven't tried switching my fstab entries to ad.s. yet, because I > > wanted to make sure that what I was observing was normal. > > > > The ad* driver can use the old wd* entries for backwards compatibility. > This means that everything should work fine with the wd* entries in > /etc/fstab. (Assuming that you still have the /dev/wd* entries) > > So what you are observing is quite normal. > > > However, you should eventually change over because the wd devices will not be supported after a while if I remember correctly Ken To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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