1) Given a system running FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE, is anything bad gonna
happen if I insert a drive into this thing while the system is running?
Assuming your board supports sata hotswap (too lazy to check) it'll be
just fine. I've done this many times with the machine I'm messing with
zfs on.
On Sat, 18 May 2013 10:49:13 -0400
Quartz articulated:
You need the sata ports running in straight up pure ahci mode (as
opposed to IDE mode or compatible or something that emulates old
style parallel-ata). Be aware that Windows up through XP doesn't
support ahci, so if you're dual booting
In message 519794e9.6080...@sneakertech.com,
Quartz qua...@sneakertech.com wrote:
3) Assuming that I want to do this stuff, what BIOS options should I
be setting or unsetting on the motherboard?
You need the sata ports running in straight up pure ahci mode (as
opposed to IDE mode or
You need the sata ports running in straight up pure ahci mode (as
opposed to IDE mode or compatible or something that emulates old
style parallel-ata).
OK. Thanks Quartz,. I'll make it a point to check for that.
The wording on different bios' can often be confusing. I've seen ahci
mode
Be aware that Windows up through XP doesn't
support ahci,
There is a huge amount of information via a quick Google search that
would seem to contradict your statements regarding WinXP and AHCI.
Sorry, poor choice of wording. I meant earlier versions of Windows don't
support achi
On Tue, 14 May 2013, RW wrote:
On Tue, 14 May 2013 07:45:21 -0400
Robert Huff wrote:
Ronald F. Guilmette writes:
3) Assuming that I want to do this stuff, what BIOS options
should I be setting or unsetting on the motherboard?
I am unable to check the BIOS settings on that MB
Warren Block writes:
I don't there there is any difference between SATA and eSATA above the
physical layer. I'm not sure what that setting would do.
At a guess, it could connect one of the internal SATA ports to
the eSATA connector.
That's the way mine works; on the other
Ronald F. Guilmette writes:
I bought one of these things awhile ago:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004LXJXSW/ref=oh_details_o00_s00_i00?ie=UTF8psc=1
I believe I have a similar object, only a) external (eSATA), b)
from a different manufacturer, and c) connected to a -CURRENT
On Tue, 14 May 2013 07:45:21 -0400, Robert Huff wrote:
Ronald F. Guilmette writes:
1) Given a system running FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE, is anything bad
gonna happen if I insert a drive into this thing while the system
is running? Will I be able to mount partitions contained on the
drive
On Tue, 14 May 2013 07:45:21 -0400
Robert Huff wrote:
Ronald F. Guilmette writes:
3) Assuming that I want to do this stuff, what BIOS options
should I be setting or unsetting on the motherboard?
I am unable to check the BIOS settings on that MB (which may
be ASrock as well),
In message 20882.9169.697806.928...@jerusalem.litteratus.org,
Robert Huff roberth...@rcn.com wrote:
Ronald F. Guilmette writes:
I bought one of these things awhile ago:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004LXJXSW/ref=oh_details_o00_s00_i00?ie=U
TF8psc=1
I believe I have a
In message 20130514144721.aa321c25.free...@edvax.de,
Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote:
I've been using SCSI hot swap devices for many years, and
they usually required a re-scan of the bus. The same often
works for USB-connected devices which also use CAM, and maybe
SATA and eSATA also support
Ronald F. Guilmette writes:
That works for me. I need to re-scan the ata channel using
atacontrol but once that happens it's fine.
Hummm... I tried atacontrol info and I got this:
atacontrol:
ATA_CAM option is enabled in kernel.
Please use camcontrol instead.
So I
On Tue, 14 May 2013 16:34:11 -0700, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
In message 20130514144721.aa321c25.free...@edvax.de,
Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote:
I've been using SCSI hot swap devices for many years, and
they usually required a re-scan of the bus. The same often
works for
I bought one of these things awhile ago:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004LXJXSW/ref=oh_details_o00_s00_i00?ie=UTF8psc=1
So far, it seems to be working just peachy, but I have yet to do anything
the least bit adventurous with it, such as trying to either insert a drive
into it or remove a
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