From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 29 15:00:53 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA26648 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 29 Jan 1999 15:00:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA26637 for ; Fri, 29 Jan 1999 15:00:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id JAA05383; Sat, 30 Jan 1999 09:29:35 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.2/8.9.0) id JAA23749; Sat, 30 Jan 1999 09:29:30 +1030 (CST) Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 09:29:30 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Rick Hamell Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Tape drive Message-ID: <19990130092930.P8473@freebie.lemis.com> References: <19990130083121.K8473@freebie.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Rick Hamell on Fri, Jan 29, 1999 at 02:17:26PM -0800 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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