> > As far as I know SATA hotswap is only partially supported. I have > > personally done it, with identically-sized drives and it worked fine. > > In this particular case, there was no disk present when the machine > booted, but after the drive was inserted, the system was able to scan > the bus and recognize the new disk. >
As Michael said, SCSI has supported hot-swap for year, so has fibre channel. SATA gets sticky because some manufactures use ATA type commands and controller technologies and some use SCSI. A few years ago, some SATA drives showed up as /dev/hd* and some showed up as /dev/sd*. I found this out the hard way when we went to install ESX Server on a SATA drive and it did not show up as /dev/sd*. ESX requires SCSI or FC drives (version 2.5). I think for the most part they show up as SCSI now for both types of implementations. Robert -------------------- 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
