On Wed, 2006-08-02 at 04:06 +0900, Tejun Heo wrote: > Roger Oberholtzer wrote: > > On Wed, 2006-08-02 at 03:45 +0900, Tejun Heo wrote: > >> Roger Oberholtzer wrote: > >>> On Wed, 2006-08-02 at 00:33 +0900, Tejun Heo wrote: > >>>> Roger Oberholtzer wrote: > >>>>> Should hotplug work with Intel Corporation 82801GB/GR/GH (ICH7 > >>>>> Family) chipset? I am trying kernel 2.6.17.7 > >> Ah.. I should have spotted this earlier. 2.6.17.7 doesn't contain > >> updated EH and doesn't support any of new features including > >> hot/warmplug. Please try 2.6.18-rc3. > > > > OK. But I think there are issues with 2.6.18 generally. But I can try it > > to see if this makes this better. > > If you're uncomfortable with -rcX, you can try libata-tj-stable patch. > It contains most of new stuff. > > http://home-tj.org/files/libata-tj-stable/libata-tj-2.6.17.4-20060710.tar.bz2 Thanks for that. But it had no noticeable difference. I looked in the bios on my system to see if I could set the SATA disks to AHCI mode. I did not see anything like that. I could select to do a manual config, in which case I could set things like LBA mode, 32-bit I/O (which defaults to off). So if hots wap require AHCI mode, I seem to be screwed. It is a phoenix bios for the supermicro computer. Maybe I can try a different SATA card instead of the stuff on the motherboard. What do you think is the best one re hots waping? Either PCI or PCI-X. > >>> I bet the driver does the right thing. The trick is knowing what that is > >>> supposed to be. And how to use the various commands on files in /sys at > >>> the correct time and in the correct order. > >> Really, it's not that complicated. > > > > Once you know what it is you need to do. > > I tried hard to make things just work. If you find things unnecessarily > complicated, please let me know. I have a system with an IDE disk with the OS that is fixed. I also have 4 hot swappable SATA disk bays. My use will involve changing the SATA disks to do an analysis of the data they contain. There will be 4 disks in an analysis set. I need to make it easy for the user to insert and remove disks. Rebooting each time is a bad alternative. So, if hot swap does not work, I will have to get warm swap working. I think part of the confusion I have is how to deal with disks that are mounted. So I need to get the steps well defined and make those that require user interaction as few as possible. -- Roger Oberholtzer OPQ Systems AB Ramböll Sverige AB Kapellgränd 7 P.O. Box 4205 SE-102 65 Stockholm, Sweden Tel: Int +46 8-615 60 20 Fax: Int +46 8-31 42 23 - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
