From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 2 13:39:11 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta5.snfc21.pbi.net (mta5.snfc21.pbi.net [206.13.28.241]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 082B937B71A for ; Fri, 2 Mar 2001 13:39:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fscked@pacbell.net) Received: from pacbell.net ([63.203.73.157]) by mta5.snfc21.pbi.net (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.3.5.2000.01.05.12.18.p9) with ESMTP id <0G9L00LOTAERDR@mta5.snfc21.pbi.net> for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 2 Mar 2001 13:30:28 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2001 13:43:39 -0800 From: richard childers Subject: Re: Hot swap IDE device? To: Artem Koutchine Cc: Christopher Farley , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: <3AA0140B.32F42B27@pacbell.net> Organization: The Free State of Dis MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (WinNT; U) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: en References: <20010301112155.A5003@northernbrewer.com> <00f501c0a275$df546fa0$0c00a8c0@ipform.ru> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG That's a good question; what does your swappable IDE drive kit say about doing it while the power was on? I think Artem is right; won't work ... under IDE, at least. -- richard Artem Koutchine wrote: > This is a bad idea. IDE is not a plug-n-play (or to say > it right: HOT SWAP) bus. You might disconnect > a drive more or less safely, but reconnecting a drive into > a working system can cause all kinds of troubles. And it > has nothing to do with FreeBSD. It is related to > electric schematic and interface standards. If you need > hot swap try: SCSI, USB, FireWire??? drives. > > Regards, > Artem > > ------ Original Message ----- > From: "Christopher Farley" > To: > Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2001 8:21 PM > Subject: Hot swap IDE device? > > > 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 > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Richard A. Childers Senor UNIX Administrator fscked@pacbell.net (email) 203.556.8471 (voice/msgs) # Providing administrative expertise (not 'damage control') since 1986. # PGP fingerprint: 7EFF 164A E878 7B04 8E9F 32B6 72C2 D8A2 582C 4AFA To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message