On Wed, 11 Apr 2001, Bruce Martin wrote:

> Hi All
> 
> We have an application that allows us to Hot Swap PCI IDE drives, at the
> hardware level. I am currently working on the NetBSD kernel and user
> software to enable this (similar to the PCMCIA detach and re-attach). I have
> written two functions that do this - they call modified versions of
> wdcdetach() and wdcattach(). However, the question is, where to call these
> from? The logical place to me is pciide() - the controller calls the
> channel, which calls the disk to be detached/reattached.
> 
> However, I need to trigger the detach and reattach manually from user
> space - does anybody have any suggestions of a good way to do this? ioctls()
> etc?

A shot in the dark, but perhaps atactl(8) might be a starting point?

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Jon
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