From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Dec 3 0:16:23 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from freebsd.dk (fw-rl0.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.114]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D144437B417 for ; Mon, 3 Dec 2001 00:16:20 -0800 (PST) Received: (from sos@localhost) by freebsd.dk (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fB38GH464870; Mon, 3 Dec 2001 09:16:17 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from sos) From: Søren Schmidt Message-Id: <200112030816.fB38GH464870@freebsd.dk> Subject: Re: attach ata dev in 4-stable In-Reply-To: <20011202231400.B336@broccoli.no-support.loc> To: Bjoern Fischer Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2001 09:16:17 +0100 (CET) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: sos@freebsd.dk X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL94b (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG It seems Bjoern Fischer wrote: > Hello, > > AFAIK it is possible to attach/detach an ata channel with atacontrol on > -CURRENT. I am looking for a way to do this on -STABLE, too. Particularly > I want to hot swap an ATA disk w/ an appropriate IDE drive bay. No RAID > is involved at the moment. > > Currently the whole machine is to be shut down, when the disks will be > swapped. Of course I would prefer something like > > spin down - detach - swap - attach - spin up > > Any ideas? The infrastructure for this is not present in the ATA driver in 4.x, and the kernel also has issues with disappearing devices (I solved those in -current, but not in stable). Anyhow work is underways to backport the -current driver to -stable, but no timeline as of yet. -Søren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message