Hi John, I had to do the same some months ago. It turned out that it didn't worked, and there was a thread about this here http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-raid&m=111851721408698&w=2 I will be more than happy to know that it does work for you now with recent kernels, but at that time there was still a lot of work to do. -- Diego. On Friday 28 April 2006 12:55, John Rowe wrote: > I am testing a machine with two SATA drives in startech.com removable > caddies. Everything including swap is RAID1. (I'm running x86_64 > Scientific Linux 4.2, a RedHat enterprise clone.) > > Informal tests suggest that pulling out an active disk causes the whole > machine to hang up but removing a disk from the RAID arrays and pulling > it out gives the message: "nv_sata: Primary device removed" and > everything happily keeps running. > > Is this a fair description? In practise do people find that following > the above allows a failed disk to be replaced without shutting down the > machine? > > Thanks > > John > > > - > 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 - 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
