From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 2 15:34:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.nbrewer.com (sparge.nbrewer.com [208.42.68.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4174F37B718 for ; Fri, 2 Mar 2001 15:34:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chris@nbrewer.com) Received: by mail.nbrewer.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 22F47383095; Fri, 2 Mar 2001 17:34:27 -0600 (CST) Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2001 17:34:27 -0600 From: Christopher Farley To: richard childers Cc: Artem Koutchine , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hot swap IDE device? Message-ID: <20010302173424.A5456@northernbrewer.com> Mail-Followup-To: Christopher Farley , richard childers , Artem Koutchine , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20010301112155.A5003@northernbrewer.com> <00f501c0a275$df546fa0$0c00a8c0@ipform.ru> <3AA0140B.32F42B27@pacbell.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3AA0140B.32F42B27@pacbell.net>; from fscked@pacbell.net on Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 01:43:39PM -0800 Organization: Northern Brewer, St. Paul, MN Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message