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Date:      Thu, 24 Dec 2009 20:11:03 +0200
From:      Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Boris Kochergin <spawk@acm.poly.edu>,  FreeBSD-Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Hot-swap support with ATA_CAM on ICH9
Message-ID:  <4B33AEB7.6070704@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <mailpost.1261666330.2491556.37493.mailing.freebsd.current@FreeBSD.cs.nctu.edu.tw>
References:  <mailpost.1261666330.2491556.37493.mailing.freebsd.current@FreeBSD.cs.nctu.edu.tw>

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Boris Kochergin wrote:
> Ahoy. I have a machine with some SATA disks connected to an ICH9
> controller. The BIOS has no options to enable AHCI support on the
> controller (not that I know for sure that it even has AHCI support).
> Once a disk on the controller is removed, using the old ata(4) driver,
> no new disks are detected using atacontrol's "reinit" or "detach" and
> the machine must be rebooted for the new disk to be seen. I'm wondering
> whether this has a chance of working with the new ATA_CAM code. If so,
> I'll give it a whirl and report back. Thank you.

It should work fine with ATA_CAM. To completely reinitialize and rescan
bus you should do now:
camcontrol reset X
camcontrol rescan X
I am going to make it more automatic later.

-- 
Alexander Motin



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