Andrew McNabb wrote: > This has been a bad couple of weeks for hard drives. Over the break, I > had one hard drive die at home and three at work. > > The warranty replacement for my hard drive at home came about five > minutes ago. I put the new drive in the enclosure and turned on power > to the drive (all of this with the computer running). I then did the > following: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] echo "scsi add-single-device 6 0 0 0" >/proc/scsi/scsi
Is this on a true SCSI disk or a SATA disk? As far as I know SATA hotswap is only partially supported. I have personally done it, with identically-sized drives and it worked fine. I've hot-swapped real scsi disks for years (6 years or more). Michael > [EMAIL PROTECTED] fdisk /dev/sde > Command (m for help): n > Command action > e extended > p primary partition (1-4) > p > Partition number (1-4): 1 > First cylinder (1-36481, default 1): > Using default value 1 > Last cylinder or +size or +sizeM or +sizeK (1-36481, default 36481): > Using default value 36481 > > Command (m for help): t > Selected partition 1 > Hex code (type L to list codes): fd > Changed system type of partition 1 to fd (Linux raid autodetect) > > Command (m for help): p > > Disk /dev/sde: 300.0 GB, 300069052416 bytes > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 36481 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/sde1 1 36481 293033601 fd Linux raid autodetect > > Command (m for help): w > The partition table has been altered! > > Calling ioctl() to re-read partition table. > Syncing disks. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mdadm -a /dev/md0 /dev/sde1 > mdadm: added /dev/sde1 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] cat /proc/mdstat > Personalities : [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] [raid1] > md127 : active raid1 sdc2[0] sdd2[1] > 195350328 blocks super 1.2 [2/2] [UU] > > md0 : active raid5 sde1[4] sdc1[1] sdb1[3] sdd1[2] > 879100608 blocks level 5, 64k chunk, algorithm 2 [4/3] [_UUU] > [>....................] recovery = 3.0% (9014144/293033536) > finish=164.8min speed=28717K/sec > > unused devices: <none> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Anyway, I thought that was very cool. It's the first time I've used > hot-swap since they added it to the kernel. > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > -------------------- > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > > The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their > author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/mailman/listinfo/uug-list -- Michael Torrie Assistant CSR, System Administrator Chemistry and Biochemistry Department Brigham Young University Provo, UT 84602 +1.801.422.5771 -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
