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Date:      Tue, 6 Sep 2005 16:08:25 -0400
From:      Charles Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
To:        gayn.winters@bristolsystems.com
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: SCSI + IDE together
Message-ID:  <C687768F-6EA3-45D7-BBF9-527292C017F4@mac.com>
In-Reply-To: <025101c5b30c$596492b0$c901a8c0@workdog>
References:  <025101c5b30c$596492b0$c901a8c0@workdog>

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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




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