From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 11 13: 9:23 2003 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 00BC837B404 for ; Tue, 11 Mar 2003 13:09:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from rwcrmhc53.attbi.com (rwcrmhc53.attbi.com [204.127.198.39]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5EB1E43FAF for ; Tue, 11 Mar 2003 13:09:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mav@wastegate.net) Received: from wastegate.net (12-226-185-104.client.attbi.com[12.226.185.104]) by rwcrmhc53.attbi.com (rwcrmhc53) with ESMTP id <20030311210920053001veule>; Tue, 11 Mar 2003 21:09:20 +0000 Received: from MOTHER (mother.wg.local [192.168.1.5]) by wastegate.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22D2D48463; Tue, 11 Mar 2003 16:13:14 -0500 (EST) From: "Doug Reynolds" To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" , "Martin McCormick" Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 16:11:54 -0500 X-Mailer: PMMail 2000 Professional (2.20.2657) For Windows 2000 (5.1.2600;1) In-Reply-To: <200303101935.h2AJZk5b029613@dc.cis.okstate.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Hot-Swapable Drives and FreeBSD Message-Id: <20030311211314.22D2D48463@wastegate.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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