Les Mikesell wrote: > 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. >
That's about what I thought. The controller is on the motherboard (don't remember the model at the moment). Since I need to shut down before pulling the old drive to keep consistency with the OS, it's not a big deal. -- Bowie ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Join us December 9, 2009 for the Red Hat Virtual Experience, a free event focused on virtualization and cloud computing. Attend in-depth sessions from your desk. Your couch. Anywhere. http://p.sf.net/sfu/redhat-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
