From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 12 6: 9:46 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from uswgne6.uswc.uswest.com (uswgne6.uswest.com [204.26.87.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B7F01575B; Thu, 12 Aug 1999 06:09:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mmeola@ima2wk6.uswc.uswest.com) Received: from egate-ut3.uswc.uswest.com (egate-ut3.uswc.uswest.com [148.157.122.201]) by uswgne6.uswc.uswest.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA04416; Thu, 12 Aug 1999 08:12:20 -0500 (CDT) Received: from smokey.uswc.uswest.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by egate-ut3.uswc.uswest.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA09957; Thu, 12 Aug 1999 07:09:49 -0600 (MDT) Received: from ima2wk6.uswc.uswest.com (ima2wk6.uswc.uswest.com [151.116.151.207]) by smokey.uswc.uswest.com (8.6.11/uswc-hub.950320) with ESMTP id HAA11810; Thu, 12 Aug 1999 07:09:48 -0600 Received: from ima2wk6.uswc.uswest.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ima2wk6.uswc.uswest.com (8.8.8+Sun/uswc-server.950313) with ESMTP id HAA06138; Thu, 12 Aug 1999 07:09:47 -0600 (MDT) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.3 3/22/99 From: Matt Meola To: questions@FreeBSD.org Cc: hardware@FreeBSD.org Subject: Having both SCSI and IDE hard disks... X-URL: http://www.qsl.net/kc0dxw Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 07:09:47 -0600 Message-ID: <6136.934463387@ima2wk6.uswc.uswest.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG If someone comes to you, and asks, "Hey, I've got a SCSI system, but EIDE drives are so cheap, that I'd like to buy one for more space on my machine. Will FreeBSD handle this?" Run away. Run _far_ away. Either that, or say, "Ni!" to him. I am traveling down this primrose path; or, perhaps more accurately, I am continually tripping at the trailhead. Two years ago, I built a SCSI system with a 2.1G IBM drive; 800M for Ebola95 and 1.2G for FreeBSD. Having little space on either partition, and seeing the prices of EIDE drives come down, I bought a Maxtor 17.2G. I've tried: o A 4G partition for Ebola95, with th rest for FreeBSD; o Dangerously dedicated FreeBSD on the whole EIDE drive; o FreeBSD consuming all of wd0, but not "dangerously dedicated". In each case, booteasy simply won't allow me to boot FreeBSD from wd0. I've got an Award BIOS, which allows me to boot from the SCSI drive first; a real life-saver. If I do that, then I get an "F5 drive 2" prompt, along with the normal "F1 Dos" and "F2 FreeBSD" prompts. With dangerously dedicated mode, if I hit F5, I'll get "F1 FreeBSD" and "F5 drive 1"; F1 does nothing (actually, the menu comes up again). With an MBR on wd0, booteasy just beeps at me when I try to boot FreeBSD from that drive. My preference is not to have to reinstall Ebola95; toward that end, my ultimate goal would be to boot FreeBSD from wd0 and Ebola95 from da0. I am told, however, that Ebola must boot from the "first" disk; but that's OK, I can boot SCSI,C,A -- just as long as I can boot FreeBSD from wd0. Any insight would be much appreciated. An remember, if you're contemplating something like this -- "Ni!" -- Matt Meola Bailey, Colorado NRA Life Member Amateur Radio Operator - KC0DXW http://www.qsl.net/kc0dxw "Gun control means using two hands." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message