Re: Hot swap IDE

2000-10-06 Thread Andre Tomt
I know, replying "to the wrong person" is a little weak, but I lost the original post in a hardware lockup on my workstation (2.4-test9, latest DRI CVS code, mga HALlib), so this has to go. And please forgive me about posting from MS Outlook Express this time, it's only temp :-) > On Thu, 5 Oct

Re: Hot swap IDE

2000-10-06 Thread Andre Hedrick
Unless you have a special bay that tri-states the buss or a host that does it for the requested channel (yes that disables both devices) you can do this once per mainboard. There was a proposal for tri-stating the buss, but that was held for 2.5. There is a partial reset IOCTL in 2.4, but it

Hot swap IDE

2000-10-06 Thread Mitchell Hicks
Lots of great info on the list thank you all!!! after reading i think most of the software raid howto's and hardware one's also.. I've Built a box with 3 drives and a hot spare.. p iii 500 256meg ram aus mother board (i think via chip set) two promise ata66 cards and 5 30 gig maxtor drives in

Hot swap IDE

2000-10-06 Thread Mitchell Hicks
Lots of great info on the list thank you all!!! after reading i think most of the software raid howto's and hardware one's also.. I've Built a box with 3 drives and a hot spare.. p iii 500 256meg ram aus mother board (i think via chip set) two promise ata66 cards and 5 30 gig maxtor drives in

Re: Hot swap IDE

2000-10-06 Thread Andre Hedrick
Unless you have a special bay that tri-states the buss or a host that does it for the requested channel (yes that disables both devices) you can do this once per mainboard. There was a proposal for tri-stating the buss, but that was held for 2.5. There is a partial reset IOCTL in 2.4, but it

Re: Hot swap IDE

2000-10-06 Thread Andre Tomt
I know, replying "to the wrong person" is a little weak, but I lost the original post in a hardware lockup on my workstation (2.4-test9, latest DRI CVS code, mga HALlib), so this has to go. And please forgive me about posting from MS Outlook Express this time, it's only temp :-) On Thu, 5 Oct