From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Jun 14 20:59:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mail.libam.com (094.dsl108154.surewest.net [63.108.154.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46BC737B401 for ; Thu, 14 Jun 2001 20:59:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from MichaelV@EDIFECS.COM) Received: from ecx1.edifecs.com (mail.edifecs.com [207.153.149.131]) by mail.libam.com (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA27038; Thu, 14 Jun 2001 21:01:23 -0700 Received: by ecx1.edifecs.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Thu, 14 Jun 2001 20:58:56 -0700 Message-ID: <36F7B20351634E4FBFFE6C6A216B30D54C45@ecx1.edifecs.com> From: Michael VanLoon To: "'Randy Bush'" , Simon Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: RE: freebsd w/ scsi and ide (fwd) Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 20:58:51 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Actually I have been doing this for years as well. Put a complete root filesystem on the IDE drive for disaster recovery, and then selective backups to it as needed. I usually disable the drive in the BIOS then, letting the system boot SCSI, and the *BSD kernel probes the IDE drive and autoconfigures it after boot, so it's still accessible when the system is up. > From: Randy Bush [mailto:randy@psg.com] > Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2001 8:47 PM > > i have a number of boxes with fast scsi striped for > performance and then a > very large cheap slow ide for quick backup. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message