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Date:      Sat, 01 Feb 2003 11:41:32 +0000
From:      Pete French <pfrench@firstcallgroup.co.uk>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, lonewolf@earthmagic.org
Subject:   Re: ata33 vs others?
Message-ID:  <E18ew1c-00057Y-00@mailhost.firstcallgroup.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20030201140556.02a7e690@helios.earthmagic.org>

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> One small word of caution though, if you move a boot drive to the new 
> controller, you will have an... interesting.. time with updating your 
> /etc/fstab and the disklabel to get it to mount root from the right drive 
> and upgrade the mount to r/w. My advice would probably be to boot once with 
> the new controller installed but the drive on the old controller, see what 
> number the new controller shows up as, update the fstab, shutdown, move 

....and also make sure the devices are in /dev. I just got bitten by
that moving a drive to another controller (yes, I finally got my ATA-100 going,
thanks for all he advice!).

-pcf.

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