Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2011 09:51:33 -0500 From: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: SOLVED: problem formating disk with gpart Message-ID: <20183.38005.426992.346403@jerusalem.litteratus.org> In-Reply-To: <20111201120444.b4eb5ce1.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <20182.39340.354254.608836@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <4ED735CD.7030505@cyberleo.net> <20111201120444.b4eb5ce1.freebsd@edvax.de>
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Polytropon writes: > > If I remember correctly, the old ATA subsystem (ad*) does not support > > hotswap notification, so the kernel will not see a device change until > > reboot or reinit. You should probably be using AHCI (if the driver > > supports your chipset) or very careful use of atacontrol detach, attach, > > or reinit. > > I'm not fully sure if this applies here, but there are > the following commands: > > atacontrol attach channel > atacontrol detach channel > atacontrol reinit channel > atacontrol spindown device [seconds] > atacontrol list > > It seems as they are intended to support "manual hotswapping" > to be done with SATA. See "man atacontrol" for details. I did: >> atacontrol detach ata0 >> atacontrol attach ata0 and the disk showed up correctly. Proceeded to partitioning and newfs, and - I have a working disk. Thanks, everyone, for the help. Robert Huff
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