From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 16 8: 5:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from eve.licentia.net (eve.licentia.net [209.100.162.198]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B1F3237B719 for ; Fri, 16 Mar 2001 08:05:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lists@stevenfettig.com) Received: (qmail 21341 invoked from network); 16 Mar 2001 16:04:10 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO MOBILE2) (209.100.162.195) by eve.licentia.net with SMTP; 16 Mar 2001 16:04:10 -0000 From: "SF" To: Cc: "Freebsd-Questions" Subject: RE: Hot swap mount compatible with FreeBSD? Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 10:04:42 -0600 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: <3AB234AA.D9215BB6@i-clue.de> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.3018.1300 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I don't understand the question. About every swap solution will work for > you. It's up to you to make sure the drive is not mounted the moment you > swap drives. > > HTH > -Christoph Sold Well, I found an answer - I think - to my own question after more digging (sorry I didn't see this before). FreeBSD doesn't seem to support hot-swapping per se. But, the suggestion you gave of making sure the drive was unmounted the moment it is swapped seems to indicate that I am really in need of a hardware setup that will allow drives to be swapped in and out of the chassis (and as long as it is not mounted at that time, this should cause no problems with the OS) - like the way a CD-Rom disc is inserted and removed. That leads me, however, back to an original question - is there any specific hardware that supports hot swapping (i.e. controller, rails, etc. from someone like Adaptec, etc) that has been used in a FreeBSD box successfully - I have found solutions that should work with MS machines, but I don't know about FreeBSD/*nix functionality? Thanks, SF To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message