From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Feb 17 18: 2:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from harmony.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B14337B401; Sat, 17 Feb 2001 18:02:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f1I221W93132; Sat, 17 Feb 2001 19:02:01 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Message-Id: <200102180202.f1I221W93132@harmony.village.org> To: Luigi Rizzo Subject: Re: hotplug ata device? Cc: wkb@freebie.demon.nl, FreeBSD-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, sos@FreeBSD.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> Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 19:02:01 -0700 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message