How to add a disk to a new system without losing the data on it?

[Steve Bertrand]

> In the dmesg it comes up as ad5 but when I mount it, it can't find the
> device.
>
> mount ad5 /music2
> mount: ad5: No such file or directory

How many partitions were on the old drive?

You might want to try

# mount /dev/ad5s1x /music2

(where x == a,c,e,f or g, depending on the number of partitions you have
on the disk)

Steve

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