On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 03:18:14PM -0600, J. Ryan Earl wrote: > Gordon Henderson wrote: > > >I've actually had very good results hot swapping SCSI drives on a live > >linux system though. > > > >Anyone tried SATA drives yet? > > > Yes, and it does NOT work yet. libata does not support hotplugging of > harddrives yet: http://linux.yyz.us/sata/features.html > > It supports hotplugging of the PCI controller itself, but not harddrives. Hotplugging of SATA II drives works with 3ware raid controllers *when installed in a chassis that supports it*. I believe pretty much any chassis that says it supports SATA hotplug will do. Personally I have had success with Chenbro 1U chassis. -- http://strugglers.net/wiki/Xen_hosting -- A Xen VPS hosting hobby Encrypted mail welcome - keyid 0x604DE5DB
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