From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 2 10: 5: 2 2001 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 2 10:04:59 2001 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from po4.wam.umd.edu (po4.wam.umd.edu [128.8.10.166]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1181037B400 for ; Tue, 2 Jan 2001 10:04:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from rac4.wam.umd.edu (IDENT:root@rac4.wam.umd.edu [128.8.10.144]) by po4.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA24580; Tue, 2 Jan 2001 13:04:50 -0500 (EST) Received: from rac4.wam.umd.edu (IDENT:sendmail@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rac4.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id NAA06491; Tue, 2 Jan 2001 13:04:50 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (culverk@localhost) by rac4.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA06486; Tue, 2 Jan 2001 13:04:50 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: rac4.wam.umd.edu: culverk owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2001 13:04:50 -0500 (EST) From: Kenneth Wayne Culver To: Erik Trulsson Cc: Christopher Rued , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Must I s/wd0/ad0/ ? In-Reply-To: <20010102190146.A10427@student.uu.se> 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 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