Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2001 09:16:17 +0100 (CET) From: Søren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk> To: Bjoern Fischer <bfischer@Techfak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: attach ata dev in 4-stable Message-ID: <200112030816.fB38GH464870@freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <20011202231400.B336@broccoli.no-support.loc>
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It seems Bjoern Fischer wrote: > Hello, > > AFAIK it is possible to attach/detach an ata channel with atacontrol on > -CURRENT. I am looking for a way to do this on -STABLE, too. Particularly > I want to hot swap an ATA disk w/ an appropriate IDE drive bay. No RAID > is involved at the moment. > > Currently the whole machine is to be shut down, when the disks will be > swapped. Of course I would prefer something like > > spin down - detach - swap - attach - spin up > > Any ideas? The infrastructure for this is not present in the ATA driver in 4.x, and the kernel also has issues with disappearing devices (I solved those in -current, but not in stable). Anyhow work is underways to backport the -current driver to -stable, but no timeline as of yet. -Søren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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