Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2005 03:55:32 +0300 From: McLone <mclone@gmail.com> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: [atacontrol detach] drive platters won't stop Message-ID: <451cb3010509081755119ba263@mail.gmail.com>
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I'd like to not "halt -p" when changing HDDs on regular IDE controllers. In 5.x times i used > atacontrol detach 1 and i heard the sounds of stopping/parking HDD. Now, in betas of 6, atacontrol (which uses not number but ataN) detaches drive OK, but platters keep spinning. Unplugging such a drive is bad for its health, i suppose. Another complain: i didn't change a thing in BIOS setup (old i815), but now inactive drives keep spinnin' forever, they just won't sleep. sysutils/ataidle is "broken" too :-( And another one, may be irrelevant: couple'a'months ago, when detaching/attaching 120g Samsung ATA drive, the OS wasn't able to pick partitions from it. (just ad2 in /dev, no slices/labels), and kernel message "opening disk ad2" IIRC. I worked it around by doing a lame > atacontrol attach 1; sleep 1; atacontrol reinit 1 because simple reinit of channel didn't helped. Only after that i was able to see GEOM messages stating slices and their length. Strange, no? This third problem was on every IDE chipset, but only with approx. a half of HDDs, incl. Samsung, IBM but excl. WD. -- wbr, |\ _,,,---,,_ dog bless ya! ` Zzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ McLone at GMail dot com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' , net- and *BSD admin '---''(_/--' `-'\_) ...translit rawxhelp
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