On 8/1/06, Roger Oberholtzer
On Mon, 2006-07-31 at 18:51 -0400, Greg Freemyer wrote:
On 7/31/06, Roger Oberholtzer
wrote: Of course hot swapping SATA disks is not currently supported in Linux. As such, udevmonitor reports nothing when the disks are inserted or removed on a system that does support this at the hardware level. There is work in libata, but nothing functioning for use in a production system.
Not sure how "production" you need it to be.
Mere mortals will need to use it. So it can't require fiddling. And it should be reliable. I wonder which SATA controllers are supported. I have an Intel 82801GB/GR/GH (ICH7 Family).
The 2.6.17 kernel has been out for a couple months I think.
Interesting. I'm using 2.6.16.13-4-smp on SUSE 10.1. Close but no cigar.
Seems there is no kernel-of-the-day for 2.6.17. Unless it is somewhere other than in http://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/kernel/kotd/ or I am looking in the wrong directory.
I was just thinking about your above comment that the newest susefied kernel was 2.6.16. Seemed wrong, so I went looking and found both 2.6.17 & 2.6.18. I think both have SuSE specific patches applied. Not sure if the 2.6.17 will still accept the big libata patch or not. Or maybe SUSE has already applied it? ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/ftp.suse.com/projects/kernel/kotd/i386/HEAD/ Greg -- Greg Freemyer The Norcross Group Forensics for the 21st Century