On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, Maurice Hilarius wrote: > >If I have a h/w support for IDE hot swap then what do you recommand for > >the same as you suggested for scsi below? > The issue seems to be one of "while the hardware supports replacing drives > and bus rescans, the Linux IDE driver may not" > > Or am I completely missing the point here??? Something like that. However, IDE RAID cards *may* handle the issue by providing a 'pseudo' device acting like a disk to the kernel. I guess the kernel does need special support (a driver) for such card(s). In a couple of days I may know more about it as I just got a motherboard with an on-board Promise Fasttrak... :) D. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
