Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 09:29:30 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Rick Hamell <hamellr@dsinw.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Tape drive Message-ID: <19990130092930.P8473@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.WNT.3.95.990129141340.-12785C-100000@bb-b1-11a>; from Rick Hamell on Fri, Jan 29, 1999 at 02:17:26PM -0800 References: <19990130083121.K8473@freebie.lemis.com> <Pine.WNT.3.95.990129141340.-12785C-100000@bb-b1-11a>
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On Friday, 29 January 1999 at 14:17:26 -0800, Rick Hamell wrote: > >>> 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? Nothing specific. It's possible that the driver could get confused because it wasn't expecting the drive to go away. > 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. You'll definitely need to umount the drives, if you mount them in the first place; you might find it better to use the raw device. The obvious thing is to try it out. Tell me if you have any problems. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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