From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Mar 5 20:46:50 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from Mail6.nc.rr.com (fe6.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.53]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB7F237B416 for ; Tue, 5 Mar 2002 20:46:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from i8k.babbleon.org ([66.57.85.154]) by Mail6.nc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.687.68); Tue, 5 Mar 2002 23:46:11 -0500 Received: by i8k.babbleon.org (Postfix, from userid 111) id EF828BA03; Tue, 5 Mar 2002 23:46:00 -0500 (EST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Brian T.Schellenberger To: sos@freebsd.dk Subject: Re: Request for testers of new ATA driver patches Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 23:46:00 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] References: <200203050701.g2571m769291@freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <200203050701.g2571m769291@freebsd.dk> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <20020306044600.EF828BA03@i8k.babbleon.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tuesday 05 March 2002 02:01 am, you wrote: | It seems Brian T.Schellenberger wrote: | > Would I be correct in understanding that this should allow me to use my | > hot-swappable secondary disk drive without rebooting? | | Yups | | > I have a Dell Inspiron 8000 laptop with a drive that can go in the | > secondary bay so I'd love to test this for your . . . unfortunately, I'm | > still at 4.5-RC so I will probably need to update my system before I can | > really try it out. | | I think it applies to 4.5 also, if not it should be easy to fix... | | -Søren I'm not sure if I did something wrong with upgrading, but the ata device did not make into my /dev/MAKEDEV file. It is in my /usr/src/etc/MAKEDEV file, but not in the /dev/MAKEDEV file. I did the usual make buldworld / make kernel / reboot / make installworld sequence. Mergemaster found nothing to merge, which is unsurprising since I didn't upgrade, I just integrated your patchfile (which patched my source tree without error so I figured that was ok). But once I created the device (I actually read the patchfile to figure out where it was and just issued the proper "mknod" by hand), it works great! My hot-swappable secondary hard drive is now hot-swappable under FreeBSD! This is *very* cool, and the timing was perfect -- I was just about to post asking if this was possible when your post showed up. I've only been using it for oh . . . ten minutes now so system stablity hasn't really been tested all that thorougly, but I was able to boot with it out and then insert, reinit the channel, and properly mount it. Very cool! (Did I mention that I'm happy with it?) System: Dell Inspiron 8000. Tested with the 20G secondary hard drive in the Media Bay. -- Brian T. Schellenberger . . . . . . . bts@wnt.sas.com (work) Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . . bts@babbleon.org (personal) ME --> http://www.babbleon.org http://www.eff.org <-- GOOD GUYS --> http://www.programming-freedom.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message