From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 5 09:00:35 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4149B16A4DD for ; Thu, 5 Oct 2006 09:00:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from on@cs.ait.ac.th) Received: from mail.cs.ait.ac.th (mail.cs.ait.ac.th [192.41.170.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5837843D46 for ; Thu, 5 Oct 2006 09:00:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from on@cs.ait.ac.th) Received: from banyan.cs.ait.ac.th (banyan.cs.ait.ac.th [192.41.170.5]) by mail.cs.ait.ac.th (8.13.1/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k9590FPL061893 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 5 Oct 2006 16:00:15 +0700 (ICT) Received: (from on@localhost) by banyan.cs.ait.ac.th (8.13.3/8.12.11) id k9590TSJ011483; Thu, 5 Oct 2006 16:00:29 +0700 (ICT) Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2006 16:00:29 +0700 (ICT) Message-Id: <200610050900.k9590TSJ011483@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> From: Olivier Nicole To: jonathan@hst.org.za In-reply-to: <200610051056.52744.jonathan@hst.org.za> (message from Jonathan McKeown on Thu, 5 Oct 2006 10:56:52 +0200) References: <200610051034.35795.jonathan@hst.org.za> <200610050838.k958cUPZ010771@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> <200610051056.52744.jonathan@hst.org.za> X-Virus-Scanned: on CSIM by amavisd-milter (http://www.amavis.org/) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Removing removable ATA hard drives X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2006 09:00:35 -0000 > > > I'm reluctant to experiment any more than I have done: the server > > > the drive bay has been fitted to is our live fileserver, with 120GB > > > of user data on two drives on the other ATA channel. > > > > I know I would take time to install the drive bay in a test machine, > > with an old disk and play with it until I am 100% confident on the way > > to mount and dismount your disk... Whatever others can say. > > Yes, so would I normally but I'm under pressure for a quick fix to this and a > number of other issues, as you might guess from the OS version on the server: > I'm trying to impose order on a bunch of inherited and undocumented servers > running (at least) 4.7-release, 4.9-release, 4.9-stable, 5.2-release, > 5.4-release-p6, plus Red Hat 6.0 and WinNT 4.0 SP6a. Unless you need to move that disk from one machine to another, fix it in your server, keep the tray for future testing when you will have more time... (if we ever have more time in the present life :) Olivier