On 11/29/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > <OT> > I do not claim that what you said is not true, but once in > the past, when I was young and dumb (now I'm old and dumb) > I intentionally pulled out that 80-wire data-cable from one > of my 2 ata-disks during heavy i/o-loading (copying files) > just to see, if my raid-1 array (hda+hdc) survives it...
Ah yes, RAID setups make this a survivable scenario. Thanks. > But I think new s-ata (or scsi) drives support some sort > of hot-plug, so even disconnecting should not lock the > whole system... I think this is only true if you don't have any filesystems mounted on the disk, or at least no files in use. I've seen problems that required a reboot when I accidentally shutoff a USB disk that was in use. So it's not really the whole system that locks up, just anything trying to access that disk. Of course, if we are talking about the one and only system disk, well, the whole system locks up. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
