From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 23 12:43:44 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 C3A7137B401 for ; Wed, 23 Oct 2002 12:43:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (bgm-24-94-58-56.stny.rr.com [24.94.58.56]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E747E43E42 for ; Wed, 23 Oct 2002 12:43:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from syborg@stny.rr.com) Received: by janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (Postfix, from userid 507) id ADCD84FC9F; Wed, 23 Oct 2002 15:38:51 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A880F4A0E; Wed, 23 Oct 2002 15:38:51 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 15:38:51 -0400 (EDT) From: John Bleichert X-X-Sender: syborg@janeway.vonbek.dhs.org Reply-To: John Bleichert To: Dan Nelson Cc: "Jeff D. Hamann" , "FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: swapping out hardware? In-Reply-To: <20021023193921.GA20784@dan.emsphone.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, Dan Nelson wrote: > 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? > > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message