Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2005 16:21:12 -0700 From: Danny Howard <dannyman@toldme.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SATA drives and hotplug capability Message-ID: <425B0668.80308@toldme.com> In-Reply-To: <20050411222520.71dw4y2ds8ssckog@www.planete-linux.net> References: <20050411222520.71dw4y2ds8ssckog@www.planete-linux.net>
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Frederic Andres wrote: >Hi, > >I'm using FreeBSD 5.2.1 and I have an Asus motherboard with an embedded >Promise 20378 controller. I want to plug/unplug a SATA drive when the >system is up. The drive is a data drive, I don't want to use RAID >capabilities of my Promise controller. > >Can someone have any experience doing this? Do you have info about SATA >drives and hotplug capabilities on FreeBSD 5.X ? > If memory serves, I went ahead and tried this, with a gmirror setup. Just yanked the drive, and gmirror did the right thing ... I do this with my laptop all the time, but when pulling the battery and inserting the DVD+RW device it is needed: sudo atacontrol reinit 1 Good luck, -danny -- http://dannyman.toldme.com/
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