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Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 10:06:46 +0200
From: Herve Boulouis <amon@sockar.homeip.net>
To: Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org>
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Le 16/08/2004 à 21:01, Scott Long a écrit:
> 
> On FreeBSD 5.x, the /dev/aacdX entry will be created as soon as the
> controller announces it.  On 4.x you might need to manually create the
> node, and that is irregardless of needing a reboot or not.
> 
> So the short answer is that FreeBSD will see arrays come and go in real
> time on Adaptec RAID controllers and will do the right thing.

That's great news !

Is this behavior driver dependent or does it apply to all others raid &
scsi drivers ?

Thanks for the info.

-- 
Herve Boulouis