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Date:      Mon, 3 Dec 2001 09:16:17 +0100 (CET)
From:      Søren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk>
To:        Bjoern Fischer <bfischer@Techfak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: attach ata dev in 4-stable
Message-ID:  <200112030816.fB38GH464870@freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: <20011202231400.B336@broccoli.no-support.loc>

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It seems Bjoern Fischer wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> AFAIK it is possible to attach/detach an ata channel with atacontrol on
> -CURRENT. I am looking for a way to do this on -STABLE, too. Particularly
> I want to hot swap an ATA disk w/ an appropriate IDE drive bay. No RAID
> is involved at the moment.
> 
> Currently the whole machine is to be shut down, when the disks will be
> swapped. Of course I would prefer something like
> 
>   spin down - detach - swap - attach - spin up
> 
> Any ideas?

The infrastructure for this is not present in the ATA driver in 4.x, 
and the kernel also has issues with disappearing devices (I solved
those in -current, but not in stable). Anyhow work is underways to
backport the -current driver to -stable, but no timeline as of yet.

-Søren

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