Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2001 17:34:27 -0600 From: Christopher Farley <chris@northernbrewer.com> To: richard childers <fscked@pacbell.net> Cc: Artem Koutchine <matrix@ipform.ru>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hot swap IDE device? Message-ID: <20010302173424.A5456@northernbrewer.com> In-Reply-To: <3AA0140B.32F42B27@pacbell.net>; from fscked@pacbell.net on Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 01:43:39PM -0800 References: <20010301112155.A5003@northernbrewer.com> <00f501c0a275$df546fa0$0c00a8c0@ipform.ru> <3AA0140B.32F42B27@pacbell.net>
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richard childers (fscked@pacbell.net) wrote:
> 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.
The documentation is very poor; it is only printed on the box, and it
appears to be a poor translation, ie:
- In-tray box... with HOT-SW AP/PNP AND MULTI-PARTITIONING function,
without rebooting system on/off upgrade your PC in seconds.
- WARNING: Please turn off the power of case or mobile rack
before removing your mobile rack
Despite the warnings, I installed this on some old hardware. FreeBSD
3.4 froze solid when I powered the drive down (without unmounting
the filesystem!), but everything came back to life when I restored
the power.
On the second attempt, I unmounted the filesystem, and powered the drive
down. FreeBSD did not complain until I powered back up and tried to
remount the filesystem.
That was the last I saw from my old 50 MB Conner HD. That thing was
pretty expensive back in 1993, too...
--
Christopher Farley
www.northernbrewer.com
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