From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Jun 15 9:21: 2 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from msgbas1.cos.agilent.com (msgbas1x.cos.agilent.com [192.6.9.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDCC337B40A for ; Fri, 15 Jun 2001 09:20:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from darrylo@soco.agilent.com) Received: from msgrel1.cos.agilent.com (msgrel1.cos.agilent.com [130.29.152.77]) by msgbas1.cos.agilent.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FC2F1C3B; Fri, 15 Jun 2001 10:20:41 -0600 (MDT) Received: from mina.soco.agilent.com (mina.soco.agilent.com [141.121.54.157]) by msgrel1.cos.agilent.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A495351D; Fri, 15 Jun 2001 10:20:30 -0600 (MDT) Received: from mina.soco.agilent.com (darrylo@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mina.soco.agilent.com (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3 SMKit7.1.1_Agilent) with ESMTP id JAA20226; Fri, 15 Jun 2001 09:20:29 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200106151620.JAA20226@mina.soco.agilent.com> To: Marc Rassbach Cc: Michael VanLoon , "'uid0@catastrophe.net'" , freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, Eric Monti Subject: Re: freebsd w/ scsi and ide (fwd) Reply-To: Darryl Okahata In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 14 Jun 2001 23:02:19 CDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 1.6) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 09:20:26 -0700 From: Darryl Okahata 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 Marc Rassbach wrote: > Yet don't laugh..... > > RedHat 7.0 will choke with a SCSI boot and an IDE as a secondary. > > So it is not as foolish a question as it seems. Yes, as most people noted, FreeBSD with both SCSI and IDE drives will work fine. However, there's a gotcha: the FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE CDROM appears to be unable to upgrade existing systems, at least in some cases. I've got an old P300 with both SCSI and IDE drives. The system boots from SCSI (dual aic7880/aic7860, although only the 7880 is used), and uses the IDE drive as additional storage. It was running 4.2-RELEASE. When I tried to upgrade to 4.3-RELEASE using the WindRiver CDROMs, the upgrade failed because sysinstall appeared to be unable to locate sh/csh, find, cpio, etc. (the debug window contained lots of "command not found" errors, and the holographic shell couldn't be started, presumably because sh/csh couldn't be found). I ended up having to blow away my root partition and use the regular "install from scratch" method (which did work fine). -- Darryl Okahata darrylo@soco.agilent.com DISCLAIMER: this message is the author's personal opinion and does not constitute the support, opinion, or policy of Agilent Technologies, or of the little green men that have been following him all day. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message