I've seen IDE drive cages for sale, and they claim to be hot swappable. Eg: http://www.dse.co.nz/cgi-bin/dse.storefront/en/product/XH6038%0A Promise has it's line of cages which appear to work with their ata controllers too: http://www.promise.com/product/superswap_list_eng.asp I'm thinking of it in a RAID 1 scenario... The Promise cage make me wonder, how much is in software, and how much is in hardware? Could we write a driver to do some of this stuff (also use smart to determine failures etc). >Richard Barrington wrote: >>Anyone know ( if || how well ) ataraid supports hot-swapping failed >>drives? What considerations are there here? >> > This is a controller, and as much as a driver issue. None of the >controllers using the ataraid driver support hotswap. The 3ware >controller supports hotswap if you use the 3dm or the cli. Hot swaping >jbod drives is much more complex on the 3ware.
