Re: software raid

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Jeff Lasman spake the following on 4/3/2007 8:42 AM:
> On Tuesday 03 April 2007 08:14 am, Scott Silva wrote:
> 
>> It seems unusual to have hotswap cages and not have a hotswap capable
>> controller.
> 
> Which is why I want to do some testing.
> 
>> I think SAS is hot-swappable, but I really don't think 
>> IDE or SATA is, and SCSI might be if it is newer.
> 
> Definitely SATA.  Definitely hotswap.
> 
> http://www.serversdirect.com/config.asp?config_id=SDR-5015M-T+B
> 
> We've been using this configuration for some time; some of the details 
> may have changed.
> 
> According to linuxmafia:
> 
> http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sata.html#intel-ich7
> 
> It's fake RAID and we've always set it up as software RAID.
> 
> (Maybe we shouldn't be?)
> 
> Jeff
Looking at the manual for that system, the drives are hot-swappable - even
with the onboard controller, but I am not sure if the linux software raid
supports hotswap. I guess you will have to test it.


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