Re: SATA port multiplier support

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 10:20:52AM -0700, Brian Buhrow wrote:
> Hello.  I have a question.  Will these changes permit the hot plugging and
> resetting of ATA drives and buses?  Maybe that's already in -current and
> NetBSD-6, but in NetBSD-5, if you lose contact with a drive, it seems
> impossible to reset the bus and reinitialize the drive.

Yes, in netbsd-6 and HEAD you can detach/reattach devices using drvctl
(e.g. drvctl -d wd0; drvctl -r -a ata_hl atabus0). This works with
port multipliers too.

It looks like support for this in in netbsd-5 too (maybe not in earlier
netbsd-5)

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
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