From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 29 14:15:16 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA20909 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 29 Jan 1999 14:15:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dsinw.com (dsinw.com [207.149.40.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA20903 for ; Fri, 29 Jan 1999 14:15:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hamellr@dsinw.com) Received: from bb-b1-11a (ppp94.pm3-0.pdx.dsinw.com [207.149.41.94]) by dsinw.com (8.8.8/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA17484; Fri, 29 Jan 1999 14:14:34 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 14:17:26 -0800 () From: Rick Hamell To: Greg Lehey cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Tape drive In-Reply-To: <19990130083121.K8473@freebie.lemis.com> Message-ID: X-X-Sender: hamellr@dsinw.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > There probably is a procedure to get around this problem (or I may be > > seeing a problem where there is not one), what is the prefered > > procedure for using IDE drives for backup? > > There isn't one yet. I'm still thinking about it. There may also be > driver problems with replacing disks, but I'm sure we can fix them if > there are. What kind of problems would this cause? I've got a IDE drawer and docking bay that I've been thinking about throwing back into my computer system. My experiences with it were in under Dos and Windows95. Under Dos you could pull the drive out and replace it, even if it was running the OS with no real problems. Win95 completely hated it, pulling out a backup drive then plugging another in would cause 95 to completly lock up. I would think that since FreeBSD can mount an unmount drives, there should be no problems with it that way. Rick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message