From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 31 07:28:43 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 78A0616A420 for ; Tue, 31 Jan 2006 07:28:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from illoai@gmail.com) Received: from xproxy.gmail.com (xproxy.gmail.com [66.249.82.194]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E6D943D46 for ; Tue, 31 Jan 2006 07:28:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from illoai@gmail.com) Received: by xproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id t12so842982wxc for ; Mon, 30 Jan 2006 23:28:42 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=EKJFsHX45AWv0Hdzf7l4ZDpy88r21iarJn7Ae8TQb+AoK4nZPqpJXDt3uqVcXGUHpbga8oGhCZfexIPMWIBPUaa8dFwnC9+o1xOixk6t4SJXQbakvnKvpmNED82hb15CC7TMj4ScK8EKyO7Eu0E/2U0CkCcmlRIwieb6nk1mVf0= Received: by 10.70.16.15 with SMTP id 15mr3764472wxp; Mon, 30 Jan 2006 23:28:42 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.70.57.17 with HTTP; Mon, 30 Jan 2006 23:28:42 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 01:28:42 -0600 From: "illoai@gmail.com" To: je killen In-Reply-To: <1401842bb9c30b8955c8cc09126e71b4@prodigy.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <1401842bb9c30b8955c8cc09126e71b4@prodigy.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 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 07:28:43 -0000 On 1/30/06, je killen wrote: > I am using LSI Logic adapter > card (haven't checked for > specific FreeBSD support). >From /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC: device mpt # LSI-Logic MPT-Fusion so typing dmesg -a | grep mpt should give you an indication if these are probing and probing correctly. > Q: Is this in fact true (v6.0 has SCSI support by default)? For as long as I've been using (sic) FreeBSD, at least some common SCSI has been in the GENERIC kernel. > 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? sysnstall is easier for a newbie, bsdlabel and newfs are much more flexible and much simpler once you understand the syntax. > 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. I would label and newfs the partitions, then: mount /dev/da0a /mnt/usr mount /dev/da1a /mnt/var (you can't just type these in and expect them to work as shown) pax -r -w -p e -X /usr/ /mnt/usr (same thing for var) ee /etc/fstab (you might also want to boot into single user mode to clear the old /usr and /var mount points, since they'll be redundant) shutdown -r now and pray a lot. Notes: man pax, man bsdlabel, man newfs. All very important. -- --