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Date:      Sun, 18 Mar 2001 01:43:31 +1030 (CST)
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
Cc:        Josef Karthauser <joe@tao.org.uk>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, "[S_ren Schmidt]" <sos@FreeBSD.org>, Luigi Rizzo <luigi@info.iet.unipi.it>, John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/ata ata-all.c ata-all.h ata-disk.c a
Message-ID:  <XFMail.010318014331.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <xzplmq4tpgk.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>

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On 17-Mar-01 Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
>  "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> writes:
> > At least I don't think you are supposed to swap IDE HW with the power on.
>  Eivind and I can testify that it works fine as long as the device you
>  unplug is idle (Eivind has done this hundreds of times...) There used
>  to be problems with the wd driver, where you could only hot-swap
>  identical devices because it didn't rescan the bus, but that's
>  precisely what Søren just fixed.

Hmm.. are you talking laptop hardware here, or 'conventional' stuff?

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Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
"The nice thing about standards is that there
are so many of them to choose from."
  -- Andrew Tanenbaum

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