From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 23 12:39:29 2002 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 18B8337B401 for ; Wed, 23 Oct 2002 12:39:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5761043E7B for ; Wed, 23 Oct 2002 12:39:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.6/8.12.5) id g9NJdLeD061998; Wed, 23 Oct 2002 14:39:21 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 14:39:21 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: "Jeff D. Hamann" Cc: "FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: swapping out hardware? Message-ID: <20021023193921.GA20784@dan.emsphone.com> References: <006f01c27ac4$4d633080$0300a8c0@godzilla> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <006f01c27ac4$4d633080$0300a8c0@godzilla> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Oct 23), Jeff D. Hamann said: > I'm replacing a tape drive (scsi) and have a couple of ide cd-rom > drives on my system. I have some scsi cd drives in another system > (reader and burner) that I would like to add/replace on the server > that will be getting the new tape drive. > > can I shutdown the freebsd machine, disconnect the ide cdrom drives > and install the scsi devices and have freebsd detect the changes in > the configuration? will I manually have to go in to fstab, etc an > manually change the values? You'll need to fiddle with fstab, but only because your type of hardwre is changing. SCSI cds show up as /dev/cd#, and ATAPI ones are /dev/acd#. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message