Hi

I too am interested in being able to do this. With IDE hard drives being
inexpensive and holding a lot of data it makes sense to use them as backup
mediums. It would be nice to be able to hot swap IDE drives.

Can the IDE bus be refreshed or is it a limitation of the OS, BIOS or IDE
controller?

Best Regards,
Patrick Mackey

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On Tue, 22 Jul 2003, Marton Fabo wrote:

> Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 15:45:48 +0200
> From: Marton Fabo <morton@eik.bme.hu>
> To: port-i386@netbsd.org
> Subject: reconfigure ide controller?
>
> [Trying to send this again, since it looks like my previous post hasn't
> got through on port-i386.]
>
> Sorry for the cross post, I didn't really know where this is most
> appropriare to send.
>
> So, does the NetBSD i386 kernel support "rescanning" IDE busses on the
> fly? I mean, I have an IDE HDD rack, and I want to install/remove the
> HDD in it without rebooting the box.
>
> thx
> mortee
>
>
>