Grahame Kelly grah...@wildpossum.com writes:
Of the seven systems I look after, three have hot-swapping HDA's via a
RAID5/6 drive enclosures, two systems have add-on SATAII caddies for
hot-swap and the others are without hot-swapping. If your interested,
and to reset your angst a little, I
Adrian Chadd adr...@creative.net.au writes:
Uhm, I'm reasonably sure there's more to hot swap than the physical
and electrical connections.
*nod* You are quite correct here.
[...]
There also may be a requirement for you to manually tell the OS
to detach and attach disk devices.
This is
The CLI command umount does this within the Linux / Unix OS.
That should have the filesystem flush data, but doesn't actually push
out dirty pages for the device — if you accessed it raw at any point
this will not be sufficient.
(Also, lower layers such as LVM, software RAID, etc, might
On Sat, 2009-05-16 at 13:49 +1000, david wrote:
While on the subject, Ubuntu used to have a convenient little applet that
gave a
list of installed hardware. It seems to have vanished. Does anyone know what
it
was called and whether it still exists?
It's called gnome-device-manager, which
Thanks Jeremy,
lshal is PERFECT and I didn't know it existed. Much nicer than the gnome
version. Having said that, why did Ubuntu take it out?
I now know that I have an
82801GB/GR/GH (ICH7 Family) SATA IDE Controller
which may help with the original question ;-)
David
Jeremy Visser wrote:
Tony Sceats tony.sce...@gmail.com writes:
The CLI command umount does this within the Linux / Unix OS.
That should have the filesystem flush data, but doesn't actually push
out dirty pages for the device — if you accessed it raw at any point
this will not be sufficient.
(Also, lower layers
On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 6:19 PM, Daniel Pittman dan...@rimspace.net wrote:
Tony Sceats tony.sce...@gmail.com writes:
The CLI command umount does this within the Linux / Unix OS.
That should have the filesystem flush data, but doesn't actually push
out dirty pages for the device — if you
I've just installed a sata hard drive bay for a second drive, the kind that has
a little front door so you can slip the drive in and out.
The point of installing it was to make it easy to change drives when doing
backups, but I had assumed that I would have to shut down before taking the
On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 11:58:14PM EST, david wrote:
I've just installed a sata hard drive bay for a second drive, the kind
that has a little front door so you can slip the drive in and out.
The point of installing it was to make it easy to change drives when
doing backups, but I had
Luke Yelavich wrote:
On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 11:58:14PM EST, david wrote:
I've just installed a sata hard drive bay for a second drive, the kind
that has a little front door so you can slip the drive in and out.
The point of installing it was to make it easy to change drives when
doing
better surge power - so if your current PSU is a bit iffy, it will
probably fail in time has been my experience.
Hope this helps.
Cheers. Grahame
From: david da...@kenpro.com.au
Date: 15 May 2009 11:58:14 PM
To: slug@slug.org.au
Subject: [SLUG] hot swapping hard drives
I've just installed a sata
...@kenpro.com.au
Date: 15 May 2009 11:58:14 PM
To: slug@slug.org.au
Subject: [SLUG] hot swapping hard drives
I've just installed a sata hard drive bay for a second drive, the
kind that has a little front door so you can slip the drive in and
out.
The point of installing it was to make it easy
Luke Yelavich them...@themuso.com writes:
On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 11:58:14PM EST, david wrote:
I've just installed a sata hard drive bay for a second drive, the
kind that has a little front door so you can slip the drive in and
out.
The point of installing it was to make it easy to change
in time has been my experience.
Hope this helps.
Cheers. Grahame
From: david da...@kenpro.com.au
Date: 15 May 2009 11:58:14 PM
To: slug@slug.org.au
Subject: [SLUG] hot swapping hard drives
I've just installed a sata hard drive bay for a second drive, the
kind that has a little front door so you can
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