From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 31 04:03:06 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3ED4616A420 for ; Tue, 31 Jan 2006 04:03:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jekillen@prodigy.net) Received: from smtp112.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com (smtp112.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.198.211]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C1A8643D45 for ; Tue, 31 Jan 2006 04:03:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jekillen@prodigy.net) Received: (qmail 66379 invoked from network); 31 Jan 2006 04:03:05 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?10.0.0.6?) (jekillen@prodigy.net@69.235.33.209 with plain) by smtp112.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com with SMTP; 31 Jan 2006 04:03:05 -0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v622) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <1401842bb9c30b8955c8cc09126e71b4@prodigy.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: je killen Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 20:03:03 -0800 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.622) Subject: SCSI on v6.0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 04:03:06 -0000 Hello; I have installed FreeBSD v6.0 and all is fine so far. I had the intention to install two SCSI drives in this system after initial install to get it together step by step. I have several Books on FreeBSD including the hard copy manuals that are obtained from FreeBSD Mall, I.E. user and admin manuals. Reading up on the use of SCSI on FreeBSD i am instructed by one of the books, I don't remember which right now that I have to add a kernel option and rebuild the kernel with SCSI support. But tonight I went ahead and installed the adapter card, and the two drives and booted to see if the hardware setup had any complaints. All seems to be well with it but I can't even hear the SCSI drives. I would expect 15k drives to make some whining noise, maybe not. I am using LSI Logic adapter card (haven't checked for specific FreeBSD support). On boot there was a line to the effect 'waiting for SCSI device to settle'. This leads me to believe that there may already be SCSI support in v6.0. Q: Is this in fact true (v6.0 has SCSI support by default)? None of the books are really current enough for v6.0 specific info as such. On the same subject, Q: What is the best way to proceed with formating and partitioning the drives? Redo installation process, or is there away to set them up without reinstallation? I will want to assign one of the SCSI drives to the /usr file system and the other to the /var file system when the one ATA drive that is being used has it all now. Anyhow, I'm being lazy with this query and I do intend to RTFM. Thank you in advance; Jeff k