From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Dec 31 16:55:27 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA10795 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Thu, 31 Dec 1998 16:55:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@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 QAA10790 for ; Thu, 31 Dec 1998 16:55:21 -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 LAA15392; Fri, 1 Jan 1999 11:20:01 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id LAA41708; Fri, 1 Jan 1999 11:19:42 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19990101111942.W39598@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1999 11:19:42 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Joe Gleason , freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: IDE hot plugging (was: IDE Antics) References: <007301be34de$f89a2bf0$f1effccd@bug.tasam.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <007301be34de$f89a2bf0$f1effccd@bug.tasam.com>; from Joe Gleason on Thu, Dec 31, 1998 at 11:59:36AM -0500 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-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thursday, 31 December 1998 at 11:59:36 -0500, Joe Gleason wrote: > Right now I have a server with 4 ide drives. I want to unmount and remove the > two that are on the secondary chain, preferably while the box is up. > I have the drives in those cool little dataport things that allows me to just > slide them out. > > If I never do anything to /dev/wd2 or /dev/wd3 will the system ever discover > they are not there anymore and crash? > > Note: I don't really need to do this, I am just wondering what will happen. Some drives need to be jumpered differently for `alone' and `master'. If your drives are of this kind, you lose. One way or the other, though, I'd expect them to crash. I'm sure that hot plugging is way down on the list of priorities for the IDE ``standard''. Greg -- 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-hardware" in the body of the message