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Date:      Tue, 8 Sep 1998 18:05:01 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Jim Jagielski <jim@jaguNET.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Moving from wd to sd
Message-ID:  <199809082205.SAA28585@devsys.jaguNET.com>
In-Reply-To: <v03130300b21b41a6a8d9@[206.156.220.6]> from "Jim Jagielski" at Sep 8, 98 04:25:22 pm

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I wrote wrote:
> 
> We are also recommending that they "drop" using the internal IDE drive
> and instead use SCSI (they already have a 2940 installed and are using it
> only to drive a DAT backup). Now the process in moving the files from
> the IDE to SCSI are pretty easy (use sysinstall to format and partition
> the SCSI drive, then temp mount it and use a dump|restore pipe to
> transfer the file systems). All well and good. The "problem" is that
> obviously we now want to boot from the SCSI drive, not the IDE drive.
> I'm planning on just removing the IDE drive (but keeping the CDROM rom,
> which is also IDE... Hmmm. possible problem?) but need to adjust the MBR
> to boot from 'sd' by default. We'll have a weird setup (SCSI drive for FBSD
> but using the IDE CDROM, since it's not used hardly at all)...
> 

Just in case it's not clear. We're planning on adjusting the BIOS to
either avoid the IDE disk totally (if we remove it) or change the boot
order.

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