From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 10 11:35:48 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57C3D37B401 for ; Mon, 10 Mar 2003 11:35:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from dc.cis.okstate.edu (dc.cis.okstate.edu [139.78.100.219]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD05043FCB for ; Mon, 10 Mar 2003 11:35:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu) Received: from dc.cis.okstate.edu (localhost.cis.okstate.edu [127.0.0.1]) by dc.cis.okstate.edu (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h2AJZk5b029613 for ; Mon, 10 Mar 2003 13:35:46 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu) Message-Id: <200303101935.h2AJZk5b029613@dc.cis.okstate.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Hot-Swapable Drives and FreeBSD Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 13:35:46 -0600 From: Martin McCormick Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Is there a safe way short of rebooting to let FreeBSD know that a hot-pluggable drive has been added? I recently added one to a FreeBSD4.7 system. When the connector made contact, a console message that Channel A had just reset popped up so the hardware knew it was there. The system continued to work properly as expected, but it only knew about /dev/da0. As soon as I rebooted, it then knew about both drives. I wanted to add a new drive to a running system and keep the reboots down to a minimum. Thank you. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK OSU Center for Computing and Information Services Network Operations Group To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message