Polytropon writes:
> > If I remember correctly, the old ATA subsystem (ad*) does not support > > hotswap notification, so the kernel will not see a device change until > > reboot or reinit. You should probably be using AHCI (if the driver > > supports your chipset) or very careful use of atacontrol detach, attach, > > or reinit. > > I'm not fully sure if this applies here, but there are > the following commands: > > atacontrol attach channel > atacontrol detach channel > atacontrol reinit channel > atacontrol spindown device [seconds] > atacontrol list > > It seems as they are intended to support "manual hotswapping" > to be done with SATA. See "man atacontrol" for details. I did: >> atacontrol detach ata0 >> atacontrol attach ata0 and the disk showed up correctly. Proceeded to partitioning and newfs, and - I have a working disk. Thanks, everyone, for the help. Robert Huff _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"