diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml index 4c6d5f2982..74cdd09d63 100644 --- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml +++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml @@ -2459,18 +2459,19 @@ sectors/track: 63 - Apart from the IDE version of the EZ drive, these are all - SCSI devices, so they should all look like SCSI disks to - FreeBSD, and the IDE EZ should look like an IDE drive. + They work. Most of these are SCSI devices, so they + look like SCSI disks to FreeBSD. The IDE EZ looks like an + IDE drive. - I am not sure how well FreeBSD supports - changing the media out while running. You will of course need - to dismount the drive before swapping media, and make sure that - any external units are powered on when you boot the system so - FreeBSD can see them. + Make sure that any external units are powered on when + booting the system. - See this note on - formatting. + To change the media while running, + check out &man.mount.8;, &man.umount.8;, and + &man.camcontrol.8; (for SCSI devices) or + &man.atacontrol.8; (for IDE devices), plus the discussion on using removable + drives later in the FAQ.