Bowie Bailey wrote:
> Les Mikesell wrote:
>> Bowie Bailey wrote:
>>
>>> Next time I do a swap, I'll bring the system back up with 2 drives and
>>> then try to hot-add the third and watch dmesg. If I see the drive
>>> detected, what do I need to do to get udev to create the device file
>>> (CentOS 4)?
>>>
>> I'm not sure about Centos4, but I think it should work. With Centos 5,
>> it automatically adds the next-available scsi device name and detects
>> the partitions. And it releases those names when you physically remove
>> the drive.
>>
>
> I tried it this time and no such luck. dmesg shows nothing at all when
> I insert the drive and the device file is not created. I think I'm
> stuck with restarting to recognize the new drive each time.
This may relate to your SATA controller more than the Centos version. I
have a Promise card that doesn't recognize hotswaps but the others I've
tried do. There used to be a page listing various SATA controllers and
their support status with linux but none of the links I can find now are
working.
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