Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 10:25:40 +0300 From: "Andrey V. Elsukov" <bu7cher@yandex.ru> To: unixmania@gmail.com Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ATA -- erratic behaviour when removing disk Message-ID: <886021203233140@webmail26.yandex.ru> In-Reply-To: 9060000000163393529 References: <20080216210736.GA17517@eos.sc1.parodius.com> 9060000000163393529
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17.02.08, 02:08, "Carlos A. M. dos Santos" <unixmania@gmail.com>: > > precautions prior to yanking the disk. Upon reinsertion, the system > > found the disk and I could continue I/O operations on it as if it had > > never been removed. Only reason I'm pointing this out is that it > > confirms the issue isn't hardware or with vendor implementation, but > > rather specific to the OS. > Congratulations to the Linux folks. Or not, since this looks like a > very risky behavior. Who warrants you that the *same* disk was plugged > back? Blindly continuing to write could easily corrupt the contents of > the second drive. There is no risk. Linux's libata detects it when you inserts a different disk. You can read some details here: http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-ide@vger.kernel.org/msg11742.html -- WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov
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