rad5s1b shows up mysteriously instead of ad5s1b

I just moved my disks to a different controller and this happened to (part of) my swap. I have searched the mailing lists, the FreeBSD homepage and Googled without success. I basically have two disks: ad0 and ad1 before the move; ad4 and ad5 after the move. ad0/ad4 is the main disk while ad1/ad5 i

ATA Tagged Queuing?

I'm considering turning on Tagged Command Queuing in my ATA system. My disks are all Hitachi 7K250 (two HDS722512VLAT80 and one HDS722516VLAT80) which according to Hitachi support this feature (queue depth = 32). However, I read in http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2003-July/00737

MBR problem

I just installed FreeBSD 5.2-RELEASE (using the mini-install CD) on my laptop which already had Win XP Home + Win XP Pro on it. During partition definition I chose not to touch the MBR. (I wanted to make use of Windows boot.ini for booting into FreeBSD.) Nevertheless, whenever I boot I get directly

Re: MBR problem

Kjell B. wrote: > I just installed FreeBSD 5.2-RELEASE (using the mini-install CD) on my > laptop which already had Win XP Home + Win XP Pro on it. During > partition definition I chose not to touch the MBR. (I wanted to make > use of Windows boot.ini for booting into FreeBSD.)

Dual boot FreeBSD 4.10 and FreeBSD 5.3

I'm about to make the switch from 4.10 to 5.3. However, I don't want to do it in one go, but rather first install 5.3 on a separate physical disk and get all applications installed and configured correctly. Once I've completed the process, the scenario is a RAID-1 setup (gmirror is the route I'

ATA Tagged Queuing? (2nd attempt to get an answer)

I sent the below question a month ago, but received no answer. Therefore, I resend it in the hope of getting one now. -- I'm considering turning on Tagged Command Queuing in my ATA system. My disks are all Hitachi 7K250 (two HDS722512VLAT80 and one HDS722516VLAT80) which according to Hita

Upgrade 4.8-RELEASE?

I was thinking of upgrading (binary) in order to correct the security issues (sendmail, openssh, realpath, etc.) that have been discovered since the 4.8-RELEASE. However, I fail to do so. I've searched the online documentation but not found what I need, except that I should run sysinstall->upgrade