Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 14:26:39 +0200 From: "Toomas Aas" <toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee> To: Jez Hancock <jez.hancock@munk.nu> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: (Semi)hot swap IDE Message-ID: <200311241226.hAOCQtfx000486@lv.raad.tartu.ee> In-Reply-To: <20031123235719.GE82057@users.munk.nu> References: <200311231117.hANBHBnV020674@lv.raad.tartu.ee>
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Hi! > Just for the record I have the kind of setup you're talking > about - I successfully 'hot swapped' a 40Gb IDE disk using a hdd > caddy tray but there are caveats (mostly highlighted above) - using the > term 'hot swap' loosely here because it just doesn't feel too clever > doing it :P > > I found the following: > > - I could remove/reinsert the device only if it was originally in the machine on > boot - this is fairly obvious I suppose. Otherwise the device just > doesn't show up. Just to make it clear for myself - did you try running 'atacontrol attach <channel>' after attaching the drive that wasn't attached at boot time and it still didn't show up? > - I could re-insert the device successfully but only if I'd umounted it > first before removing it. That's obvious. Since I'm planning to use this disk as a backup media, I'll keep the FS unmounted most of the time anyway - to be protected from 'rm -rf /' type of things. Thanks for your input. -- Toomas Aas | toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee | http://www.raad.tartu.ee/~toomas/ * Character density: The number of very weird people in the office.
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