On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 6:20 PM, John Bridges <john.bridges@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 9:20 AM, Peter Rabbitson <rabbit+list@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Apologies for yet another off-topic thread :) >> >> Since there has been some discussion about not-quite-server grade hardware, >> I would like to ask about your experience with SATA controllers that fully >> support hotplug. By fully support I mean I can pull a drive, have udev >> register it as missing, put it back in - have the device node re-appear in >> /dev. To date I am not aware of any consumer grade (i.e. can be found on >> newegg) controller/chipset which can actually do this. Does such a card >> exist? >> > > What about the AOC-SAT2-MV8? > http://www.supermicro.com/products/accessories/addon/AOC-SAT2-MV8.cfm > > It's the least expensive 8 port card I've found. > > Have the drivers progressed far enough to support hotswap? It didn't > work last year when I tried it, but I see there have been updates > made. > I just tested it with SUSE 10.3 x64 2.6.22.17-0.1 It worked fine hot plugging a 1TB Seagate drive, both plug and unplug. So the drivers are now functional. At under $15 per port for a 8 port card, that certainly is in the consumer grade price range. -- 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
