[nzlug] Hotswapping and sata drives...

[Steve Holdoway]

I've been running my second level backups in this manner for the last 2+ years, using 4 SATA disks in caddies in rotation. Replacingt the disk caddy when umounted has worked faultlessly during this time.

I'm using promise sata drivers, and haven't updated the debian installation for quite some time ( 2.6.8 kernel ).

Steve.
On Mon, 3 Dec 2007 00:05:57 +1300
Nevyn <nevynh at gmail.com> wrote:

> Does anyone know the status of hotswapping and sata drives under Linux (Ubuntu)?
> 
> I found this information on the card I've got:
> http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sata.html#sil
> 
> which says that the driver is production quality but I'm wondering if
> this concludes that it can be hotswapped. Once I've figured out if it
> is capable, I also need to find out if there are any special commands
> for it. I.e. is unmounting or ejecting it enough or are there commands
> specifically for preparing a drive to be taken out?
> 
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