Re: adding ata-harddisc without rebooting?

["Dr. Ragnar Beer" <rbeer_(_at_)_uni-goettingen_(_dot_)_de>]

It seems that my question was not very clear. The cartridges are only
frames for standard ata harddiscs to avoid having to dissassemble the
whole box to swap them. The question is simply if it is possible to add
and mount a new ata harddisc that was not present at boot time without
having to reboot the machine. (Hints to helpful manpages would also help.)

On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 12:51:07 +0100
"Dr. Ragnar Beer" <rbeer_(_at_)_uni-goettingen_(_dot_)_de> wrote:

> Howdy!
> 
> I'm using ATA cartridges on almost all of my computers to be able to
> swap drives easily. It is no problem to unmount all the partitions on an
> inserted hd and then remove the cartridge from the running computer. But
> is there way to add and mount a cartrigde while the computer is running
> without having to reboot? (OBSD 3.6/i386)
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Ragnar