On Monday 21 August 2006 22:44, Matt Dawson wrote: > > atacontrol detach ata3; atacontrol attach ata3 did. > > Yes, that is the method for a controlled remove and reattach, a la hotplug > SATA. AIUI, though, if the drive goes AWOL on its own you need to reinit > the channel before issuing an atacontrol attach foo. In theory... (man 8 > atacontrol) In practice, the drive disappears, never to be probed again. A > warm reboot without power down makes it appear again, so the drive itself > isn't confused.
If you have a "proper" hot plug SATA controller you don't need to reinit anything. When I was testing a Promise 2300 the act of plugging the drive in caused a new disk to show up (which was nice :) This did not happen on the VIA 8237 controller (which, by the way, has a really really crappy RAID function, avoid at all costs). -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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