On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 11:15:30PM +0100, Mark Cullen wrote:
> Geert Hendrickx wrote:
> >On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 09:53:17PM +0100, Mark Cullen wrote:
> >
> >>Hi all,
> >>
> >>I am looking to 'upgrade' my little home server from FreeBSD 4.11.

I've been doing quite a bit of development on a platform based on FreeBSD
4.11 recently.  I can agree that it will be a very substantial upgrade
indeed!  FreeBSD 4 is pretty old and crusty (in particular, the age of its
network stack really shows).

> In FreeBSD, the device names are always:
> 
> ad0 = Primary Master
> ad1 = Primary Slave
> ad2 = Secondary Master
> ad3 = Secondary Slave

This is only the case because the default FreeBSD kernel configuration
installed by the system installer has an option that causes it to be
so.  You can build a NetBSD kernel like that too; just hardwire the disks
to the channels and master/slave positions in your kernel config file,
instead of using * and ? to wildcard them.

However, with RAIDframe this is not necessary, because it will find the
disks by their component labels.

Thor