Lamar Owen wrote:
Should it be possible to hot-swap SATA drives with Centos5?
Depends on the SATA controller, but yes. If the controller allows, you
can hotswap sata drives.
How are the names supposed to work when one may be missing at bootup and
added later?
I thought the system would just assign the next available /dev/sdx?
Then there was the post about wanting to be able to pull a SATA/eSATA
disk in and have the system automatically mount whatever filesystem is
on the disk...
That was mine. Still working on it.
As to the hardware support, the definitive answer is found at
www.linux-ata.org
Thanks - the problem must be the Promise controller. I'll have to dig
up something else.
As to device naming, use LABEL= to fix that. SCSI device naming on Linux
stinks.
Can grub deal with that for the /boot partition? A default install on a
scsi drive that came in after the sata's wouldn't boot if I removed one
of the sata disks.
What I want to end up with is the system on a pair of raid 1 scsi
drives, then a 3-member raid1 mounted separately where one is
periodically swapped out and taken offsite. I'm currently doing
something similar with 2 IDE and one firewire drive but the firewire
driver doesn't seem reliable enough to leave the drive connected much
longer than it takes to sync.
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Les Mikesell
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