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Date:      Sat, 17 Feb 2001 19:02:01 -0700
From:      Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>
To:        Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@aciri.org>
Cc:        wkb@freebie.demon.nl, FreeBSD-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, sos@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: hotplug ata device? 
Message-ID:  <200102180202.f1I221W93132@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 17 Feb 2001 17:55:14 PST." <200102180155.f1I1tEY21445@iguana.aciri.org> 
References:  <200102180155.f1I1tEY21445@iguana.aciri.org>  

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In message <200102180155.f1I1tEY21445@iguana.aciri.org> Luigi Rizzo writes:
: > In message <20010217190246.A313@freebie.demon.nl> Wilko Bulte writes:
: > : Is it possible to have something like the 'camcontrol rescan' that
: > : the SCSI CAM subsystem has?
: > 
: > NO.  These cards are not hot pluggable.  I've blown out two IDE
: > Controllers hot plugging them.  DO NOT TRY TO HOTPLUG THEM OR YOU WILL
: > BE SORRY.
: > 
: > I hate to shout like that, but after the second IDE controller fried,
: > I got real conservative.
: 
: i think he was referring to compactflash memories which you can stick
: into pcmcia adapters and are hot-pluggable.

No he wasn't.  He talkd specifically about the TAPR adapter, which
connects to the IDE bus and is not hot pluggable.  I have one of these
beasts, which is how I know :-)

For the pccard ones, you don't generally need to rescan the bus unless
you have an cdrom that wasn't attached at probe time...

Warner


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