Andre van Eyssen <an...@purplecow.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Apr 2009, Rince wrote:
>
> > FWIW, I strongly expect live ripping of a SATA device to not panic the disk
> > layer. It explicitly shouldn't panic the ZFS layer, as ZFS is supposed to be
> > "fault-tolerant" and "drive dropping away at any time" is a rather expected
> > scenario.
>
> Ripping a SATA device out runs a goodly chance of confusing the
> controller. If you'd had this problem with fibre channel or even SCSI, I'd
> find it a far bigger concern. IME, IDE and SATA just don't hold up to the
> abuses we'd like to level at them. Of course, this boils down to
> controller and enclosure and a lot of other random chances for disaster.
PATA (ide) does not support hpt-plug, SATA does and SATA uses the same interface
as SAS does.
I would expect that there is no difference between unplugging a SATA drive and
unplugging a SAS drive.
Jörg
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