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 file system fir

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 thing