Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 23:46:00 -0500 From: Brian T.Schellenberger <bts@babbleon.org> To: sos@freebsd.dk Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Request for testers of new ATA driver patches Message-ID: <20020306044600.EF828BA03@i8k.babbleon.org> In-Reply-To: <200203050701.g2571m769291@freebsd.dk> References: <200203050701.g2571m769291@freebsd.dk>
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On Tuesday 05 March 2002 02:01 am, you wrote:
| It seems Brian T.Schellenberger wrote:
| > Would I be correct in understanding that this should allow me to use my
| > hot-swappable secondary disk drive without rebooting?
|
| Yups
|
| > I have a Dell Inspiron 8000 laptop with a drive that can go in the
| > secondary bay so I'd love to test this for your . . . unfortunately, I'm
| > still at 4.5-RC so I will probably need to update my system before I can
| > really try it out.
|
| I think it applies to 4.5 also, if not it should be easy to fix...
|
| -Søren
I'm not sure if I did something wrong with upgrading, but the ata device did
not make into my /dev/MAKEDEV file. It is in my /usr/src/etc/MAKEDEV file,
but not in the /dev/MAKEDEV file. I did the usual make buldworld / make
kernel / reboot / make installworld sequence. Mergemaster found nothing to
merge, which is unsurprising since I didn't upgrade, I just integrated your
patchfile (which patched my source tree without error so I figured that was
ok).
But once I created the device (I actually read the patchfile to figure out
where it was and just issued the proper "mknod" by hand), it works great!
My hot-swappable secondary hard drive is now hot-swappable under FreeBSD!
This is *very* cool, and the timing was perfect -- I was just about to post
asking if this was possible when your post showed up.
I've only been using it for oh . . . ten minutes now so system stablity
hasn't really been tested all that thorougly, but I was able to boot with it
out and then insert, reinit the channel, and properly mount it.
Very cool!
(Did I mention that I'm happy with it?)
System: Dell Inspiron 8000. Tested with the 20G secondary hard drive in the
Media Bay.
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