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Date:      Wed, 14 Mar 2001 16:19:06 +0100 (CET)
From:      Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk>
To:        joe@tao.org.uk (Josef Karthauser)
Cc:        sos@FreeBSD.org (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren?= Schmidt), cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/ata ata-all.c ata-all.h ata-disk.c ata-disk.h atapi-all.c atapi-all.h atapi-cd.c atapi-cd.h atapi-fd
Message-ID:  <200103141519.QAA46468@freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: <20010314143318.A544@tao.org.uk> from Josef Karthauser at "Mar 14, 2001 02:33:19 pm"

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It seems Josef Karthauser wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 04:05:45AM -0800, Søren Schmidt wrote:
> >   Refine the detach/attach code.
> >   
> >   Proberly fail outstanding bio requests on devices that are detached.
> >   
> >   This makes it possible to change between disk/cdrom/dvd/whathaveyou
> >   in a notebook, just by suspending it, changing the device in the
> >   bay (or what you model calls it), unsuspend and the ATA driver
> >   will figure out what disappeared and properly fail those, and attach
> >   any new devices found.
> 
> Is there a userland tool coming for poking this without suspending?

Yes, atacontrol is on its way for doing numerous things to
ATA/ATAPI devices, no promises as to when, but soon now..

-Søren

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