Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1999 11:19:42 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Joe Gleason <clash@tasam.com>, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: IDE hot plugging (was: IDE Antics) Message-ID: <19990101111942.W39598@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <007301be34de$f89a2bf0$f1effccd@bug.tasam.com>; from Joe Gleason on Thu, Dec 31, 1998 at 11:59:36AM -0500 References: <007301be34de$f89a2bf0$f1effccd@bug.tasam.com>
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On Thursday, 31 December 1998 at 11:59:36 -0500, Joe Gleason wrote: > Right now I have a server with 4 ide drives. I want to unmount and remove the > two that are on the secondary chain, preferably while the box is up. > I have the drives in those cool little dataport things that allows me to just > slide them out. > > If I never do anything to /dev/wd2 or /dev/wd3 will the system ever discover > they are not there anymore and crash? > > Note: I don't really need to do this, I am just wondering what will happen. Some drives need to be jumpered differently for `alone' and `master'. If your drives are of this kind, you lose. One way or the other, though, I'd expect them to crash. I'm sure that hot plugging is way down on the list of priorities for the IDE ``standard''. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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