From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 16 20:23:25 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A8341065692 for ; Thu, 16 Oct 2008 20:23:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@koitsu.dyndns.org) Received: from QMTA02.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net (qmta02.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net [76.96.62.24]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C07E8FC0C for ; Thu, 16 Oct 2008 20:23:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@koitsu.dyndns.org) Received: from OMTA08.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.62.12]) by QMTA02.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id TSMP1a0060Fqzac52YNkeX; Thu, 16 Oct 2008 20:22:44 +0000 Received: from koitsu.dyndns.org ([69.181.141.110]) by OMTA08.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id TYPP1a0032P6wsM3UYPPjf; Thu, 16 Oct 2008 20:23:24 +0000 X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.0 c=1 a=zWTp1yHTipkA:10 a=6gU17RteXIwA:10 a=QycZ5dHgAAAA:8 a=cADnAnogbZ765odC1UsA:9 a=8yR-KKRHIHx8xZT-ah4_-bLjYtEA:4 a=EoioJ0NPDVgA:10 a=LY0hPdMaydYA:10 Received: by icarus.home.lan (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 91726C9432; Thu, 16 Oct 2008 13:23:22 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 13:23:22 -0700 From: Jeremy Chadwick To: Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz> Message-ID: <20081016202322.GA2429@icarus.home.lan> References: <20080927051413.GA42700@icarus.home.lan> <765067435.20080926223557@takeda.tk> <20080927064417.GA43638@icarus.home.lan> <20080927202250.GA60980@icarus.home.lan> <48E0DB7E.20804@quip.cz> <1222699642.24339.12.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk> <48E0F36C.1080400@quip.cz> <20080929153220.GA11459@icarus.home.lan> <48F7964C.4060309@quip.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <48F7964C.4060309@quip.cz> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Cc: Gavin Atkinson , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Recommendations for servers running SATA drives [hot-swap] X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 20:23:25 -0000 On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 09:30:20PM +0200, Miroslav Lachman wrote: > Today I was replacing disk in one Sun Fire X2100 M2 so I tried > hot-swapping. It was as you said: atacontrol detach ata3, replace the > HDD, atacontrol attach ata3 and new disk is in the system. I tried it 3 > times to be sure that it was not coincidence - no panic was produced ;o) > So in this case, hot-swapping on Sun Fire X2100 M2 with FreeBSD 7.0 i386 > works. That's excellent news. So it seems possibly the problem I was seeing was with "reinit" causing some sort of chaos. I'll have to check things on my testbox here at home to see how I caused the panic last time. Thanks for providing feedback, as usual! :-) -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |