Re: hotplug ata device?

2001-02-18 Thread Wilko Bulte
On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 05:55:14PM -0800, Luigi Rizzo wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wilko Bulte writes: : Is it possible to have something like the 'camcontrol rescan' that : the SCSI CAM subsystem has? NO. These cards are not hot pluggable. I've blown out two IDE Controllers

Re: hotplug ata device?

2001-02-18 Thread Wilko Bulte
On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 07:24:06PM -0700, Warner Losh wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Luigi Rizzo writes: : i actually wonder, aren't there removable disk frames which support : hot swap (by turning off power with the keylock, or the like) ? I've not seen any, but I suppose they exist.

Re: hotplug ata device?

2001-02-18 Thread Warner Losh
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wilko Bulte writes: : Thanks for all the input :-) I will stop my hot-swap experiments here and : now. To think that a few stupid TTL buffer chips would have made it : possible to hotswap :-( The design is such that that might be difficult When a CF card is

Re: hotplug ata device?

2001-02-18 Thread Wilko Bulte
On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 02:36:36AM -0700, Warner Losh wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wilko Bulte writes: : Thanks for all the input :-) I will stop my hot-swap experiments here and : now. To think that a few stupid TTL buffer chips would have made it : possible to hotswap :-( The

Re: hotplug ata device?

2001-02-17 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Wilko Bulte wrote: Hi I'm looking for ideas on the following: I just added a CF-ata adapter to my system (see http://www.tapr.org). This works just fine, as long as the card is in the socket during boot. For obvious reasons this is not always the case. If it was not seen during

Re: hotplug ata device?

2001-02-17 Thread Warner Losh
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wilko Bulte writes: : Is it possible to have something like the 'camcontrol rescan' that : the SCSI CAM subsystem has? NO. These cards are not hot pluggable. I've blown out two IDE Controllers hot plugging them. DO NOT TRY TO HOTPLUG THEM OR YOU WILL BE SORRY. I

Re: hotplug ata device?

2001-02-17 Thread Luigi Rizzo
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wilko Bulte writes: : Is it possible to have something like the 'camcontrol rescan' that : the SCSI CAM subsystem has? NO. These cards are not hot pluggable. I've blown out two IDE Controllers hot plugging them. DO NOT TRY TO HOTPLUG THEM OR YOU WILL BE

Re: hotplug ata device?

2001-02-17 Thread Michael C . Wu
On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 05:55:14PM -0800, Luigi Rizzo scribbled: | In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wilko Bulte writes: | : Is it possible to have something like the 'camcontrol rescan' that | : the SCSI CAM subsystem has? | | NO. These cards are not hot pluggable. I've blown out two IDE |

Re: hotplug ata device?

2001-02-17 Thread Warner Losh
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Luigi Rizzo writes: : In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wilko Bulte writes: : : Is it possible to have something like the 'camcontrol rescan' that : : the SCSI CAM subsystem has? : : NO. These cards are not hot pluggable. I've blown out two IDE : Controllers hot

Re: hotplug ata device?

2001-02-17 Thread Luigi Rizzo
| NO. These cards are not hot pluggable. I've blown out two IDE | Controllers hot plugging them. DO NOT TRY TO HOTPLUG THEM OR YOU WILL | BE SORRY. ... | I hate to shout like that, but after the second IDE controller fried, | I got real conservative. ... And Warner uses these TAPR

Re: hotplug ata device?

2001-02-17 Thread Warner Losh
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Luigi Rizzo writes: : i actually wonder, aren't there removable disk frames which support : hot swap (by turning off power with the keylock, or the like) ? I've not seen any, but I suppose they exist. The TAPR ones, however, definitely are not those beasts. they