On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 22:13:43 -0500, Luke Lonergan <LLonergan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > David, > > > now hot-swap may not be supported on all interface types, that may be what > > you have run into, but with SCSI or SATA you should be able to hot-swap > > with the right controller. > > That's actually the problem - Linux hot swap is virtually non-functional for SCSI. You can write into the proper places in /proc, then remove and rescan to get a new drive up, but I've found that the resulting OS state is flaky. This is true of the latest 2.6 kernels and LSI and Adaptec SCSI controllers. > > The problems I've seen are with Linux, not the controllers. The other option is to keep hot spares available so that you can have a failure or two before you have to pull drives out. This might allow you to get to a maintenance window to swap out the bad drives.
