Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2001 06:25:36 -0800 From: richard childers <fscked@pacbell.net> To: treznor@sunflower.com Cc: Jason Liao <maillist@Gallantry.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hot swap IDE device? Message-ID: <3AA0FEE0.6213D710@pacbell.net> References: <20010303002935.90639.qmail@web12504.mail.yahoo.com>
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I don't think this is an effort to sell a product. It's a single reference to a vendor by a person whom is not particularly interested in drumming up sales (he's an engineer, not a salesperson) but whom *is* interested in contributing a real-life case of an IDE device that is hot-swappable. Thanks for contributing some solid facts to the debate, Tyler. There we have it; with suitable intermediary electronics, IDE devices may be safely swapped. Does this mean that FreeBSD supports hot swapping? At this time, no; if a user wishes to add such functionality it is possible but it is outside the envelope of supported configurations at this point in time. -- richard Tyler McGeorge wrote: > I admire your galant effort to sell products, but this > comment doesn't seem to offer any help. > > Just a though, > Tyler > --- Jason Liao <maillist@Gallantry.com> wrote: > > The company I work for makes a 1U rackmount machine. > > It has a RAID-1 > > mirrored disk subsystem. The machine takes two IDE > > hard disks, and the > > RAID-1 board makes them appear as a single SCSI > > drive to the CPU. The > > IDE disks are hot swapable. (Sorry for the > > commercial, but if you need > > more details, see > > http://www.gallantry.com/Doc/PDF/GallantRACK-1U.pdf > > ) > > > > Jason > > > > > > Tyler McGeorge wrote: > > > > > > I've actually seen a working IDE hot swap on a > > Windows > > > machine. It is possible, but, it does require the > > hot > > > swap kit and I believe they warn against doing it > > on a > > > regular basis to avoid hard disk damage. You might > > > check the manual for the hot swap kit, it may > > mount as > > > a drive image or something bizarre. > > > > > > Best of luck, > > > Ty > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of > > the message > > > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. > http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Richard A. Childers Senor UNIX Administrator fscked@pacbell.net (email) 203.556.8471 (voice/msgs) # Providing administrative expertise (not 'damage control') since 1986. # PGP fingerprint: 7EFF 164A E878 7B04 8E9F 32B6 72C2 D8A2 582C 4AFA To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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