Date: Mon, 13 May 2013 21:37:22 -0700 From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@tristatelogic.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Hot Swapping SATA drive? Message-ID: <26657.1368506242@server1.tristatelogic.com>
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I bought one of these things awhile ago: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004LXJXSW/ref=oh_details_o00_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 So far, it seems to be working just peachy, but I have yet to do anything the least bit adventurous with it, such as trying to either insert a drive into it or remove a drive from it while the system is powered on (and running FreeBSD). I just now tried to read up a little bit on all of this ACPI stuff, but my eyes are starting to glaze over. So if someone would answer these simple and obvious questions, I'd appreciate it: 1) Given a system running FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE, is anything bad gonna happen if I insert a drive into this thing while the system is running? Will I be able to mount partitions contained on the drive in question after I do so? 2) Given a system running FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE, is anything bad gonna happen if I remove a drive from this thing while the system is running, assuming that I have already properly umounted all relevant partitions first? 3) Assuming that I want to do this stuff, what BIOS options should I be setting or unsetting on the motherboard? Please excuse my ignorance, but I've never done this stuff before. P.S. I am _not_ using ZFS. P.P.S. Motherboard is ASRock N68C-GS FX.
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