From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 5 08:54:59 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 6C39816A403 for ; Thu, 5 Oct 2006 08:54:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jonathan@hst.org.za) Received: from sirian.hst.org.za (sirian.hst.org.za [209.203.2.130]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2719843D5A for ; Thu, 5 Oct 2006 08:54:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jonathan@hst.org.za) Received: from localhost (localhost.hst.org.za [127.0.0.1]) by sirian.hst.org.za (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC14831C883 for ; Thu, 5 Oct 2006 10:56:19 +0200 (SAST) Received: from sirian.hst.org.za ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (sirian.hst.org.za [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 78648-03 for ; Thu, 5 Oct 2006 10:56:19 +0200 (SAST) Received: by sirian.hst.org.za (Postfix, from userid 1004) id B263031C878; Thu, 5 Oct 2006 10:56:19 +0200 (SAST) Received: from sysadmin.int.dbn.hst.org.za (sysadmin.int.dbn.hst.org.za [10.1.1.20]) by sirian.hst.org.za (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A10E31C869 for ; Thu, 5 Oct 2006 10:56:19 +0200 (SAST) From: Jonathan McKeown Organization: Health Systems Trust To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2006 10:56:52 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.2 References: <200610051034.35795.jonathan@hst.org.za> <200610050838.k958cUPZ010771@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> In-Reply-To: <200610050838.k958cUPZ010771@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200610051056.52744.jonathan@hst.org.za> X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.61 (1.212.2.1-2003-12-09-exp) on sirian.hst.org.za X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.4 required=7.0 tests=BAYES_00, REMOVE_REMOVAL_2WORD autolearn=no version=2.61 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at hst.org.za Subject: Re: Removing removable ATA hard drives X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2006 08:54:59 -0000 On Thursday 05 October 2006 10:38, Olivier Nicole wrote: > Hi, > > > I'm reluctant to experiment any more than I have done: the server > > the drive bay has been fitted to is our live fileserver, with 120GB > > of user data on two drives on the other ATA channel. > > I know I would take time to install the drive bay in a test machine, > with an old disk and play with it until I am 100% confident on the way > to mount and dismount your disk... Whatever others can say. Yes, so would I normally but I'm under pressure for a quick fix to this and a number of other issues, as you might guess from the OS version on the server: I'm trying to impose order on a bunch of inherited and undocumented servers running (at least) 4.7-release, 4.9-release, 4.9-stable, 5.2-release, 5.4-release-p6, plus Red Hat 6.0 and WinNT 4.0 SP6a. Jonathan