On Fri, 2008-04-04 at 15:41 +0200, Neil wrote:
Question: I hear everyone speaking about the hotpugability of (good) hard raid controllers, but is it possible to hot plug a new SATA drive into a soft raid system? Are there motherboards that do not support hot plugging of SATA drives? For IDE it is probably impossible (IDE was not designed for it I belive) unless the hardware RAID controller would have special possibilities for it, I believe. Thanks for taking the time to think about it
Many SuperMicro systems support this. We do this with their systems with 4 SATA drive bays that we swap. Of course, we still need to do a umount/mount. And, this can, if needed, be coordinated with udev so you can specify extra stuff to happen when a disk is inserted. -- Roger Oberholtzer OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST Ramböll Sverige AB Kapellgränd 7 P.O. Box 4205 SE-102 65 Stockholm, Sweden Office: Int +46 8-615 60 20 Mobile: Int +46 70-815 1696 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org