From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 1 9:22: 0 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.nbrewer.com (sparge.nbrewer.com [208.42.68.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D609137B718 for ; Thu, 1 Mar 2001 09:21:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chris@nbrewer.com) Received: by mail.nbrewer.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 8B4C5383070; Thu, 1 Mar 2001 11:21:57 -0600 (CST) Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 11:21:57 -0600 From: Christopher Farley To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Hot swap IDE device? Message-ID: <20010301112155.A5003@northernbrewer.com> Mail-Followup-To: Christopher Farley , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Organization: Northern Brewer, St. Paul, MN Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Is there any way to get FreeBSD to add/remove an IDE device from a running system? I'm experimenting with a $15 removable IDE hard drive kit. I would ideally like to be able to power down the drive, remove it, insert a new drive (possibly a different manufacturer/capacity), power it up, and force FreeBSD to recognize the new IDE device. Is this possible? I assume I can swap identical drive models endlessly, and FreeBSD would be none the wiser. However, two years down the road, it will be impossible to replace a broken drive with the identical model. -- Christopher Farley www.northernbrewer.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message