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Date:      Tue, 12 Aug 2003 21:15:15 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Lukas Ertl <l.ertl@univie.ac.at>
To:        Tobias Roth <roth@iam.unibe.ch>
Cc:        mobile@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Hot swap of bay devices [IBM T30]
Message-ID:  <20030812211345.T582@korben.in.tern>
In-Reply-To: <20030812191211.GA6670@speedy.unibe.ch>
References:  <7551391.1060700599918.JavaMail.nobody@fozzie.psp.pas.earthlink.net> <bhb0kr$72o$1@sea.gmane.org> <20030812191211.GA6670@speedy.unibe.ch>

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On Tue, 12 Aug 2003, Tobias Roth wrote:

> encouraged by the recent reports of hot-swapping bay devices, i
> tried the following on my IBM T30 (recent -current):
>
>  - booting with the drive
>  - atacontrol detach 1
>  - removing the drive
>  - reinserting the drive
>  - atacontrol attach 1
>  - mounting a cdrom

This works on my T20, too.

> the above sequence works repeatedly, but with one annoyance:
> whenever the drive gets inserted during runtime, the machine
> starts to beep and doesn't stop until the drive gets removed.
> this does not interfer with normal operation, however.

I always do a suspend/resume to stop the beep.  *Sometimes* that crashes
the machine. :-)

> the following did not work:
>
>  - booting without the drive
>  - inserting the drive
>  - atacontrol attach 1
>
> the drive did not show up.

That's what I'm experiencing, too.

regards,
le

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