I posted a while back asking if anyone knew of work being done to support disk hot-swap on 3Ware IDE RAID cards. I received a couple of answers that misunderstood me, stating that is was supported. Of course it is supported using their BIOS based RAID, but was not using Linux software RAID. I am happy to say that this matter has been successfully addressed by 3ware, in that I have used a beta set of command line utilities with their cards and software RAID that does indeed work for supporting hot-swap of disks in a RAID set, and a few other useful things as well. The people at 3Ware now tell me that these CLI utils are going to be officially released, in their non-beta version, in the next couple of weeks. Even better news is that they are releasing them under an Open Source license! Anyway, my original question was more than amply answered once again by the people at 3Ware. Ta! With our best regards, Maurice W. Hilarius Telephone: 01-780-456-9771 Hard Data Ltd. FAX: 01-780-456-9772 11060 - 166 Avenue mailto:maurice@harddata.com Edmonton, AB, Canada http://www.harddata.com/ T5X 1Y3 2.3TB RAID5 NAS server - dual AthlonMP CPU, Linux, $10,995 CAD / $6850 USD - 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
