Re: hot swap scsi drive

2004-10-19 Thread luke
> I guess it will depend a lot on the hardware you have, but you probably > want to try one or both of 'camcontrol stop' or 'camcontrol eject' before > pulling the drive. One of these should spin the drive down and leave it > in a safe state to be removed. this is exactly what i was looking for..

Re: hot swap scsi drive

2004-10-19 Thread Scott Mitchell
On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 09:17:55PM -0500, luke wrote: > > Is this box designed do be hot pluggable? the IBM p-series servers I use > > at work have a back plane that allows this and sets the address > > the drives are designed to be hot pluggable they are in removable > trays that slide in and out

Re: hot swap scsi drive

2004-10-18 Thread luke
> Is this box designed do be hot pluggable? the IBM p-series servers I use > at work have a back plane that allows this and sets the address the drives are designed to be hot pluggable they are in removable trays that slide in and out. i'm just asking if there is a freebsd-specific action that i s

Re: hot swap scsi drive

2004-10-18 Thread arden
On Mon, 2004-10-18 at 22:04, luke wrote: > i have a pe2450 with 4 sca bays. i've tried to find information on > hotswapping hard drives on google, but to no avail. is there something > i need to do before i unplug a drive? obviously, i will not have any > slices from it mounted when i unplug it. al

hot swap scsi drive

2004-10-18 Thread luke
i have a pe2450 with 4 sca bays. i've tried to find information on hotswapping hard drives on google, but to no avail. is there something i need to do before i unplug a drive? obviously, i will not have any slices from it mounted when i unplug it. also, if i add a drive, do i need to rescan the scs