On Tue, 2002-06-04 at 16:17, Maurice Hilarius wrote: > With regards to your message at 04:54 PM 6/4/02, Friedrich Lobenstock. > Where you stated: > >Maurice Hilarius wrote: > >>Hi There > >>Problem: > >>On IDE software RAID setup, we want to be able to hot-swap out a failed disk. > >>Using 3Ware cards we can swap only by rebooting system to recognise the > >>new drive > >>Question: Is there a way to rescan IDE bus to recognise a new drive? > > > >Are you using the 3Ware Diskmanager Daemon and its webinterface or not? > >It seems not. > As I understand it that is only useful if we use the 3Ware BIOS RAID. > In this case we are interested in doing this with software RAID > So how would we make it rescan with this?? Hmm, hard to say. When I'm hot swapping PCI cards, I simply unload the kernel module that is the driver for that card before I power-off/remove the card. I don't know enough about kernel internals to know how to do this with a single IDE bus, though. Greg -- Portland, Oregon, USA. Please don't copy me on replies to the list. - 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
