From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 4 1:30:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.169.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01EC837B718 for ; Sun, 4 Mar 2001 01:30:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from tedm.placo.com (nat-rtr.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.168.154]) by mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f249RTN17514; Sun, 4 Mar 2001 01:27:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: "Roelof Osinga" Cc: "Christopher Farley" , "richard childers" , "Artem Koutchine" , Subject: RE: Hot swap IDE device? Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2001 01:27:29 -0800 Message-ID: <002901c0a48d$5578d4a0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 In-Reply-To: <3AA1C85D.ED2D3F76@eboa.com> Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >-----Original Message----- >From: Roelof Osinga [mailto:roelof@eboa.com] > >Whatever shape the IDE bus is in, it oughta be possible to whack it >into proper shape again. As long as you don't blow any necessary >circuits unnecessarily it ought to be possible to get the show on >the road again. > Sure anything is possible if you write some software for it. But I think your going to be finding that to get at the IDE bus to wack it, that your going to have to be adding a bunch of things to the ATAPI driver in FreeBSD. All of this is already done in the SCSI driver and so it's a choice of whether you want to spend the extra money for SCSI or the extra time to poop out a new, debugged IDE driver with this capability added into it. Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message