Date: Sun, 8 Mar 2009 00:11:54 -0600 (CST) From: Wes Morgan <morganw@chemikals.org> To: George Hartzell <hartzell@alerce.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Am I using atacontrol attach properly? (sata hotplug issue). Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0903080008120.25621@ibyngvyr.purzvxnyf.bet> In-Reply-To: <18867.1464.374096.420552@almost.alerce.com> References: <18867.1464.374096.420552@almost.alerce.com>
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On Sat, 7 Mar 2009, George Hartzell wrote: > I have a Gigabyte GA-6KIEH-RH motherboard. It has 5 SATA ports, 4 > attached to a Sil 3114 controller and 1 attach to an ICH8m. The > system is running -CURRENT from yesterday. > > I have two disks attaching as ad4 and ad6 to ata2 and ata3 resp. > > I can set ACHI mode for ICH8m in the BIOS. When I do not enable it, > the 5th SATA conector shows up as slave on ata6. When I do enable it > the 5th connector shows up as master on ata8. > > If I boot without anything connected to the fifth port, then connect a > drive I thought that the following should work to get the drive > recognized: > > sudo atacontrol detach ata8 > sudo atacontrol attach ata8 I'm able to hot-plug new and hot-swap existing drives on an ICH7 controller, on -current. Have you also tried a reinit?
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