From owner-freebsd-mobile Sat Feb 2 10:47: 4 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.bsdimp.com [204.144.255.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9DBA37B402 for ; Sat, 2 Feb 2002 10:47:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g12Il0o50308; Sat, 2 Feb 2002 11:47:00 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@village.org) Received: from localhost (warner@rover2.village.org [10.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g12IkxL13645; Sat, 2 Feb 2002 11:46:59 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@village.org) Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2002 11:46:29 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <20020202.114629.52439593.imp@village.org> To: malaclypse@gamesluts.org Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dell Inspiron 8100 Hot-swappable device support? From: "M. Warner Losh" In-Reply-To: <001801c1abc0$00265ff0$0200a8c0@tigra> References: <001801c1abc0$00265ff0$0200a8c0@tigra> X-Mailer: Mew version 2.1 on Emacs 21.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In message: <001801c1abc0$00265ff0$0200a8c0@tigra> "Cory" writes: : My main concern/curiosity is: is there any way to get the hot-swappable : drive to detect/work? I've got a Toshiba CD R/W IDE hot swappable drive that : detects on boot as acd1, but I'd like to be able to get the device to : initialize post-boot. Is that even possible in FreeBSD, or any Unix for that : matter? Windows seems to treat it like a USB-style device, complete with : "ejection" support. -current has atacontrol, which is what you want. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message