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Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 16:06:05 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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To: Claude Buisson <ubc@adam.framatome.fr>
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Subject: Re: Is it possible to swap disks between AHA-2840 and ASUs SC-200 ?
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On Tue, 22 Apr 1997, Claude Buisson wrote:

> To minimize the impact on users, I wish to be able to do the following:
> 
> 1) install FreeBSD 2.2.1 on a (test) P90 machine, with an AHA-2940
> controller, and an IBM 1 GB disk, then
> 
> 2) move the disk to a (running) P166 machine, with an ASUS SC-200
> controller.
> 
> In step 1) of course I must generate a kernel with aha and ncr support.
> 
> Is there additional problems (for example with the BIOS) ?

As long as the kernel is configured properly for the target machine,
then it should work ok.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major