From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Feb 1 3:41:45 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B66B337B401 for ; Sat, 1 Feb 2003 03:41:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailhost.firstcallgroup.co.uk (dilbert.firstcallgroup.co.uk [194.200.93.142]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE7C143E4A for ; Sat, 1 Feb 2003 03:41:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from pfrench@firstcallgroup.co.uk) Received: from pfrench by mailhost.firstcallgroup.co.uk with local (Exim 3.36 #1) id 18ew1c-00057Y-00; Sat, 01 Feb 2003 11:41:32 +0000 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, lonewolf@earthmagic.org Subject: Re: ata33 vs others? In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20030201140556.02a7e690@helios.earthmagic.org> Message-Id: From: Pete French Date: Sat, 01 Feb 2003 11:41:32 +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message