[CentOS] SATA hotswap

[Robert Heller]

At Fri, 21 May 2010 15:38:44 +0200 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote:

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> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I changed a bad disk (automaticly disabled from software raid1 and system
> for I/O error) in one of our servers and now have problem with adding new
> one to system without reboot. Does anybody have an experience with this? Or
> is it possible? :) We're using hotswap AXX6DRV3G for 6 SATA disks from Intel
> connected directly to MB (S5520HC from Intel too). There is AHCI as driver
> (enabled in bios), no HW raid.
> I found, something like that
> 
> echo "0 0 0" >/sys/class/scsi_host/host<n>/scan
> 
> but it found only sda disk which is already running..
> Using CentOS 5.5, x86_64.
> 
> Thanks for your ideas and replies ... and excuse my english please :)

I didn't need to do anything special when inserting disks into my
(cheap) 4x 2.5" SATA hot swap bay.  Just inserted the drive and the
HAL/udev deamon pick it up all on its own. My motherboard is a
nVidia-based:

00:09.0 SATA controller: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] AHCI Controller (rev a2)

And I am using the AHCI driver.  CentOS 5.4, x86_64 (xen).

It could be that the SATA controller on your motherboard does not
support hotswap detection (not all AHCI controllers support hotswap
detection). 


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