Steve Ling wrote: > I hot swap a SATA drive to create archives. I have an older motherboard > with an ICH5 SATA controller that has limited hot swap support and > requires manual help. I believe it's not until ICH10 that you get full > automatic hot swap. > > server1:~ # lspci | grep SATA > 00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801EB (ICH5) SATA > Controller (rev 02) >
# lspci | grep ATA 00:0e.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Serial ATA Controller (rev a1) 00:0f.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Serial ATA Controller (rev a1) > This is what I do to detect and mount the drive: > > server1:~ # echo 0 0 0 > /sys/class/scsi_host/host?/scan > > server1:~ # mount /media/bkup > > Where host? is the host to which the drive is attached (host0, host1, > etc) How do I tell which host the drive is attached to? > and /media/bkup is defined in /etc/fstab via disk label > > LABEL=BKUP1 /media/bkup ext3 noauto,acl,user_xattr 0 0 > > To remove the drive: > > server1:~ # umount /media/bkup > > server1:~ # echo 1 > /sys/block/sd?/device/delete > > Where sd? is the device name (sda, sdb, etc). Be sure you have the right > device name or you may do some damage. Sounds like a good way to shoot yourself in the foot! -- 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/
