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. -S�ren To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
