On Wed, 19 May 2004, Ming Zhang wrote: >is there any support from linux that can do this hot swappable a little >easier? It's not the kernel's fault. Not entirely... SCSI will let you hot plug with little trouble. IDE is a different problem. The real problem is the system hardware. Aside from SATA, I don't know of any MB that openly supports hot plugging of drives without some risk of Real Trouble (tm). --Ricky - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html