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Date:      Fri, 28 Feb 1997 13:34:52 -0600
From:      tom@peeper.jackson.org (Tom Jackson)
To:        ben@narcissus.ml.org (Snob Art Genre)
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Mount query
Message-ID:  <199702281934.NAA01161@peeper.jackson.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.95.970227221842.15309A-100000@narcissus.ml.org>; from Snob Art Genre on Feb 27, 1997 22:19:34 -0800
References:  <199702280549.XAA00400@peeper.jackson.org> <Pine.NEB.3.95.970227221842.15309A-100000@narcissus.ml.org>

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Snob Art Genre writes:
> On Thu, 27 Feb 1997, Tom Jackson wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Hi'all
> > 
> > I don't remember anyone ever asking this before, but who knows.
> > Two situations: one, you leave your cdrom or removable media out
> > when you boot up. You want to use it later on without rebooting.
> > Is this possible?
> 
> Absolutely.  I boot with an audio CD in the drive all the time.  It's only
> during installation that this is an issue.

your absolutely correct, apparently cd9660 fs can handle media of varying
size.
>  
> > two, you bootup with one size removable media ( its usable). Later
> > on you want to change the size of the removable media. Is this
> > possible, without rebooting? I really hope it is, but am afraid it
> > isn't.
> 
> I don't know, but I'd be *very* surprised if you had to reboot.  Have you
> tried it?
> 
this is my main interest. The removable media is syquest cartridges of
135 and 230 mb size. I upgraded to the ezflyer but have a stack of 135 mb
carts from the ez135. The problem seems to be the fact freebsd considers
the syquest a hard disk (which *is* good for performance) but will not let
me change the incore configuration of the carts. Was hoping there was a 
Magic way to change the incore config, like re-probe the drive without
rebooting.

thanks anyhow
> > Hate to ruin my uptime stats. Anybody know?
> 
>  Ben
> 
> "You have your mind on computers, it seems."
> 

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