Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 22:55:14 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: Matt Dawson <matt@chronos.org.uk>, Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz> Subject: Re: ATA problems again ... general problem of ICH7 or ATA? Message-ID: <200608212255.22927.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <200608211414.16731.matt@chronos.org.uk> References: <20060821120052.0B25816A526@hub.freebsd.org> <200608211414.16731.matt@chronos.org.uk>
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--nextPart2241712.hVTn1fjBur Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Monday 21 August 2006 22:44, Matt Dawson wrote: > > atacontrol detach ata3; atacontrol attach ata3 did. > > Yes, that is the method for a controlled remove and reattach, a la hotplug > SATA. AIUI, though, if the drive goes AWOL on its own you need to reinit > the channel before issuing an atacontrol attach foo. In theory... (man 8 > atacontrol) In practice, the drive disappears, never to be probed again. A > warm reboot without power down makes it appear again, so the drive itself > isn't confused. If you have a "proper" hot plug SATA controller you don't need to reinit=20 anything. When I was testing a Promise 2300 the act of plugging the drive in caused a= =20 new disk to show up (which was nice :) This did not happen on the VIA 8237 controller (which, by the way, has a=20 really really crappy RAID function, avoid at all costs). =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart2241712.hVTn1fjBur Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBE6bRC5ZPcIHs/zowRAisLAJ9Wo1auIvxDlGGvp1qRsUt0xtAI7wCeNTxV 89xMuN878rTLJd/YNqC65cY= =nciO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2241712.hVTn1fjBur--
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