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Date:      Fri, 8 Mar 2002 09:15:32 +0100 (CET)
From:      Søren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk>
To:        "Ryan K. Losh" <rklosh@rkl.org>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Request for testers of new ATA driver patches
Message-ID:  <200203080815.g288FWD56395@freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: <20020308.010633.74747065.rklosh@rkl.org>

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It seems Ryan K. Losh wrote:
> I assume the patched IDE subsystem behaves in the following way:
> 
>   The IDE controllers (aka ata0, ata1, etc) are enumerated and
>   initialized at boot time.
> 
>   The IDE devices are probed and initialized at boot time.
> 
>   atacontrol is able to make changes to the list of DEVICES after
>   hard disk/CDROM/Tape drive/etc is physically added or removed.
> 
>   atacontrol is not able to re-scan the (PCI or whatever) bus to
>   detect CONTROLLER additions/removals
> 
> Is my understanding of the patch correct, or does it have the ability
> to "play nicely" with my hardware?

The ATA driver allows hotswap of ATA/ATAPI devices, what you are
asking for is that the kernel also can do PCI hotswap, which we
do not have support for yet, I have it on my wanted features list.

-Søren

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