On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 08:14:28AM -0500, Patrick Shanahan wrote:

* Josef Wolf [12-12-12 04:27]:

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I am looking for a hot-plug capable SATA card with 4 or 8 ports with PCIe interface.

iiuc, SATA spec specifies hot-plug, ie: all SATA cards s/b hot-plug capable.

Yes. But not all of them are supported by the kernel out of the box. My first trial was a RocketRaid 2680SGL with 8 ports, that happened to use the Marvell 88se6485 chip. Unfortunately, this chip is not supported by the kernel. Bad luck. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

Patrick Shanahan wrote:

* Josef Wolf [12-12-12 04:27]:

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I am looking for a hot-plug capable SATA card with 4 or 8 ports with PCIe interface.

iiuc, SATA spec specifies hot-plug, ie: all SATA cards s/b hot-plug capable.

My hot-swap knowledge is with Windows. With it the drivers very often don't provide hot-swap support. With linux, I would assume you can always manually: connect, mount, use, unmount, disconnect. You will want to mount by something unique to the drive. (Ie. I suspect /dev/sdb1 is not a smart way to mount in a hot swap environment.) Note that if you want to be safer, you could mount the drives with the sync flag, but your performance will suffer. The benefit is even if you fail to unmount the drive should be consistent and no data should be lost. Greg -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org