From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 6 20:08:52 2005 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 D8C6616A41F for ; Tue, 6 Sep 2005 20:08:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from smtpout.mac.com (smtpout.mac.com [17.250.248.97]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DD7B43D4C for ; Tue, 6 Sep 2005 20:08:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mac.com (smtpin08-en2 [10.13.10.153]) by smtpout.mac.com (Xserve/8.12.11/smtpout06/MantshX 4.0) with ESMTP id j86K8WSA009021; Tue, 6 Sep 2005 13:08:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [10.1.1.209] (nfw2.codefab.com [199.103.21.225] (may be forged)) (authenticated bits=0) by mac.com (Xserve/smtpin08/MantshX 4.0) with ESMTP id j86K8UQK016211; Tue, 6 Sep 2005 13:08:31 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <025101c5b30c$596492b0$c901a8c0@workdog> References: <025101c5b30c$596492b0$c901a8c0@workdog> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v734) X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Charles Swiger Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2005 16:08:25 -0400 To: gayn.winters@bristolsystems.com X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.734) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SCSI + IDE together 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, 06 Sep 2005 20:08:53 -0000 On Sep 6, 2005, at 1:56 PM, Gayn Winters wrote: > What does it take to be able to use a mixture of SCSI and IDE (ATA) > disks? Nothing special. You could boot off a FreeBSD CD-ROM image and do so, or from a working FreeBSD install on one of the drives. Your SCSI disks will be /dev/da0, da1, etc and your IDE disks will be /dev/ ad0, ad1, etc. > I'd like to be able to copy (dd) one to another. While dd will work, in the sense that you can copy blocks of data directly, it is unlikely that the two drives will be of the same size and have the same geometry/partition table. This may or may not present a problem, but you might want to consult: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#NEW- HUGE-DISK -- -Chuck