It seems Iani Brankov wrote: [Charset koi8-r unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > Hi, > I tried 'camcontrol rescan' and I found it works when I add a SCSI device > while > the system is on. I find it useful for adding/removing devices w/o restarting > the box. (Maybe it's risky, but useful. I supposed that's the idea of the > 'rescan' command in camcontrol) > > Is there a way to do the same with the new 'ata' code. (I know IDE isn't SCSI > anyway).
I have some experimental code that enables one to do this, but it is not without risk as the IDE channels are not designed for this. You also need to put the disk in a drawer that is able to shut off power etc so you dont burn any electronics while changing the drive. Once I get a little time I'll celan this up and make it available... -Søren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
