Am I using atacontrol attach properly? (sata hotplug issue).

[George Hartzell]

Wes Morgan writes:
 > On Sat, 7 Mar 2009, George Hartzell wrote:
 > 
 > > I have a Gigabyte GA-6KIEH-RH motherboard.  It has 5 SATA ports, 4
 > > attached to a Sil 3114 controller and 1 attach to an ICH8m.  The
 > > system is running -CURRENT from yesterday.
 > >
 > > I have two disks attaching as ad4 and ad6 to ata2 and ata3 resp.
 > >
 > > I can set ACHI mode for ICH8m in the BIOS.  When I do not enable it,
 > > the 5th SATA conector shows up as slave on ata6.  When I do enable it
 > > the 5th connector shows up as master on ata8.
 > >
 > > If I boot without anything connected to the fifth port, then connect a
 > > drive I thought that the following should work to get the drive
 > > recognized:
 > >
 > >  sudo atacontrol detach ata8
 > >  sudo atacontrol attach ata8
 > 
 > I'm able to hot-plug new and hot-swap existing drives on an ICH7 
 > controller, on -current. Have you also tried a reinit?

I have tried reinit without any success.

I also just rearranged connectors and tried adding a new drive to one
of the Sil 3114 without any luck.

g.