From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 24 04:26:59 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CD8016A4CE for ; Mon, 24 Nov 2003 04:26:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from lv.raad.tartu.ee (lv.raad.tartu.ee [194.126.106.110]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A066543FA3 for ; Mon, 24 Nov 2003 04:26:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee) Received: Message by Barricade lv.raad.tartu.ee with ESMTP id hAOCQtfx000486; Mon, 24 Nov 2003 14:26:55 +0200 Message-Id: <200311241226.hAOCQtfx000486@lv.raad.tartu.ee> Received: from INFO/SpoolDir by raad.tartu.ee (Mercury 1.48); 24 Nov 03 14:26:56 +0200 Received: from SpoolDir by INFO (Mercury 1.48); 24 Nov 03 14:26:47 +0200 From: "Toomas Aas" Organization: Tartu City Government To: Jez Hancock Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 14:26:39 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Priority: normal In-reply-to: <20031123235719.GE82057@users.munk.nu> References: <200311231117.hANBHBnV020674@lv.raad.tartu.ee> cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: (Semi)hot swap IDE X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 12:26:59 -0000 Hi! > Just for the record I have the kind of setup you're talking > about - I successfully 'hot swapped' a 40Gb IDE disk using a hdd > caddy tray but there are caveats (mostly highlighted above) - using the > term 'hot swap' loosely here because it just doesn't feel too clever > doing it :P > > I found the following: > > - I could remove/reinsert the device only if it was originally in the machine on > boot - this is fairly obvious I suppose. Otherwise the device just > doesn't show up. Just to make it clear for myself - did you try running 'atacontrol attach ' after attaching the drive that wasn't attached at boot time and it still didn't show up? > - I could re-insert the device successfully but only if I'd umounted it > first before removing it. That's obvious. Since I'm planning to use this disk as a backup media, I'll keep the FS unmounted most of the time anyway - to be protected from 'rm -rf /' type of things. Thanks for your input. -- Toomas Aas | toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee | http://www.raad.tartu.ee/~toomas/ * Character density: The number of very weird people in the office.