Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 16:11:54 -0500 From: "Doug Reynolds" <mav@wastegate.net> To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, "Martin McCormick" <martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu> Subject: Re: Hot-Swapable Drives and FreeBSD Message-ID: <20030311211314.22D2D48463@wastegate.net> In-Reply-To: <200303101935.h2AJZk5b029613@dc.cis.okstate.edu>
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On Mon, 10 Mar 2003 13:35:46 -0600, Martin McCormick wrote: > Is there a safe way short of rebooting to let FreeBSD >know that a hot-pluggable drive has been added? > > I recently added one to a FreeBSD4.7 system. When the >connector made contact, a console message that Channel A had just >reset popped up so the hardware knew it was there. The system >continued to work properly as expected, but it only knew about >/dev/da0. > > As soon as I rebooted, it then knew about both drives. > > I wanted to add a new drive to a running system and keep >the reboots down to a minimum. Thank you. this might sounds like a dumb question, but did you try to mount the file system, and do you have made the device node with MAKEDEV? --- doug reynolds | the maverick | mav@wastegate.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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