On Aug 23, 2007, at 9:08, Lamar Owen wrote:
Many motherboards that have more than two SATA connectors put two
on the
SouthBridge's IDE-type controller, and the others on 'something else'.
Usually, the 'something else' shows as a SCSI controller in Linux.
How many
SATA connectors are
Ok, run a 'lspci' and see if it lists two controllers.
Yup, it does:
# lspci | fgrep IDE
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) 4 port
SATA IDE Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.5 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) 2 port
SATA IDE Controller (rev 02)
/dev/hda is being controlled by a controller that mimics an IDE
drive and is being accessed through the kernel's ide layer. /dev/
sda is being controlled by a libata-supported controller and is
being accessed through the kernel's scsi stack with libata.
As far as I know, all drives (2 hard
Jim Perrin wrote:
Should it be possible to hot-swap SATA drives with Centos5? It doesn't
seem to work on my system. Removing an unmounted drive locked the
system up, and leaving one out at bootup makes the devices change names
and keeps grub from finding /boot on a scsi drive that is shifted
Les Mikesell wrote:
Jim Perrin wrote:
Should it be possible to hot-swap SATA drives with Centos5? It doesn't
seem to work on my system. Removing an unmounted drive locked the
system up, and leaving one out at bootup makes the devices change names
and keeps grub from finding /boot on a scsi
Just to add my 5 cents (centos 5 cents that is har har)...
I have several plain jane seagate sata drives, connected mostly to nforce4
sata (module sata_nv) controller, and a few connected to a silicon image
controller (sata_sil) ... hot swap is a non issue for me. All my drives are
part of MD
On Tuesday 21 August 2007, Feizhou wrote:
Les Mikesell wrote:
Jim Perrin wrote:
Should it be possible to hot-swap SATA drives with Centos5?
Depends on the SATA controller, but yes. If the controller allows, you
can hotswap sata drives.
How are the names supposed to work when one may
Lamar Owen wrote:
On Tuesday 21 August 2007, Feizhou wrote:
Les Mikesell wrote:
Jim Perrin wrote:
Should it be possible to hot-swap SATA drives with Centos5?
Depends on the SATA controller, but yes. If the controller allows, you
can hotswap sata drives.
How are the names supposed to
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