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Date:      Wed, 23 Oct 2002 15:38:51 -0400 (EDT)
From:      John Bleichert <syborg@stny.rr.com>
To:        Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
Cc:        "Jeff D. Hamann" <jeff_hamann@hamanndonald.com>, "FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: swapping out hardware?
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.44.0210231537480.20835-100000@janeway.vonbek.dhs.org>
In-Reply-To: <20021023193921.GA20784@dan.emsphone.com>

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On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, Dan Nelson wrote:

> Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 14:39:21 -0500
> From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
> To: Jeff D. Hamann <jeff_hamann@hamanndonald.com>
> Cc: "FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
> Subject: Re: swapping out hardware?
> 
> 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
> 

Also, note that if your current kernel doesnt support the SCSI drives 
you're swapping in, you'll need to be able to boot the GENERIC kernel, or 
at least build a new kernel before the swap with support for the SCSI 
devices you're adding.

That is, iff you roll your own kernel.

JB

#  John Bleichert 
#  http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg


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