Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 12:42:22 -0500 (EST) From: Brian Anderson <bunicula@rcn.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: softupdates and other disk questions Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.9912231224530.24742-100000@charon.diabolis.net>
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hello, first, the easy part: can someone point me to a url for softupdates information? now it gets a bit more fun: i've been a linux user for a couple of years, but have started to hit areas that i'm not really very happy with, like NFS. i'm accessing a linux NFS server fairly heavily (it's got 48 gig of storage, over 4 IDE hard disks, exporting 8 filesystems to 3 other unix machines, doing regular transfers of 500ish meg files.) i'm leaning toward moving it to BSD, but have a couple of concerns. i had to seriously fight with the system to get it to boot from the scsi hard disk, and use the 4 ide for storage. it's an intel se440bx-2 motherboard, with an adaptec 2940UA scsi adapter. the scsi bios sees the scsi disk as the primary device just fine, and boots from it. but LILO didn't like the setup, saying that the scsi drive wasn't the primary boot disk. so i had to specify in the lilo configuration disk=/dev/sda bios=0x80 disk=/dev/hda bios=0x81 etc... for each drive. then lilo would boot and install correctly. the next problem was with fdisking the ide drives. for whatever reason, when any scsi disk is present, fdisk detected the primary ide drive as 75 gig (not usable though :( ). unplug the scsi drive, fdisk would work fine. the tape and cdrom drives, also scsi, had no issues with the ide bus. i've never had any other os on this machine, so i don't know if its a hadrware problems or a linux problem... the bios seems to see everything fine, so i'm thinking linux) so this kludge was to force the c/h/s info during fdisk. so it still probes as a 75 gig drive, but works correclty as a 13 the last issue is that i'm using linux software raid on 2 of the drives. so i know i'll have to dump everything to a multi volume tape set then restore it all once the bsd box is up. but, back to the matter at hand. i'm confident that the nfs server would work better under freebsd. but i don't know the system well enough to deal with all of these kinds of problems, should they arise. particularly the ide/scsi disk hack... does anyone have any thoughts? is it a linux problem? will freebsd just go right on? i don't have the resources to set up another machine to test this all out on, and really don't want to take the whole thing down, find out that freebsd won't work, then have to build it all up again. thanks for any input... brian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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