Re: Hot Swapping disks (only somewhat on topic)

2000-07-05 Thread Neil Brown
On Wednesday July 5, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am playing around with hot swapping scsi hard drives. My machine is an > IBM netfinity 5100. Generally I have not been able to hot swat my drives. > For the moment, I am not using RAID, I thought it better to try a simple > ext2

Re: Hot Swapping disks (only somewhat on topic)

2000-07-05 Thread Patrik Schindler
At 14:58 Uhr -0400 05.07.2000, Robert wrote: >1. If a drive is not present when the machine is booted, but is inserted >after the machine is up, it can't be mounted. (You get a message that the >device is not a valid block device.) You must tell the Kernel about this new device. This is also men

Hot Swapping disks (only somewhat on topic)

2000-07-05 Thread Robert
I am playing around with hot swapping scsi hard drives. My machine is an IBM netfinity 5100. Generally I have not been able to hot swat my drives. For the moment, I am not using RAID, I thought it better to try a simple ext2 file system first. Perhaps hot swapping only works if the only

Re: hot swapping

1999-06-09 Thread David Robinson
hu, 03 Jun 1999 16:16:06 -0700, Lawrence Dickson wrote: > > > >> In the raidtools-0.90-3 RPM, there are links suggestively named > >>raidhotadd and raidhotremove to raidstart, but the man files and the howto > >>don't seem to say anything about how hot swapping

hot swapping

1999-06-09 Thread Lawrence Dickson
-0400, Michael McLagan wrote: >On Thu, 03 Jun 1999 16:16:06 -0700, Lawrence Dickson wrote: > >> In the raidtools-0.90-3 RPM, there are links suggestively named >>raidhotadd and raidhotremove to raidstart, but the man files and the howto >>don't seem to say anything about h

Re: Hot-swapping

1999-04-17 Thread Dietmar Stein
Interesting - I thought about the same questions for a few days... I will have a try on Monday. Greetings, Dietmar Francisco Jose Montilla wrote: > > Hi, > > - Suppose you have all the raid discs on hot-swapable removable > kits. > > - Suppose you use an active termina

Hot-swapping

1999-04-17 Thread Francisco Jose Montilla
Hi, - Suppose you have all the raid discs on hot-swapable removable kits. - Suppose you use an active terminator hooked on the last cable connector. - Suppose you have a *non* hot-swap capable controller. Will it be possible to hot-swap discs? I mean,