Les Mikesell wrote:
Jim Perrin wrote:
Should it be possible to hot-swap SATA drives with Centos5? It doesn't seem to work on my system. Removing an unmounted drive locked the system up, and leaving one out at bootup makes the devices change names and keeps grub from finding /boot on a scsi drive that is shifted up.
Depends on the SATA controller, but yes. If the controller allows, you can hotswap sata drives.
How are the names supposed to work when one may be missing at bootup and added later?
I thought the system would just assign the next available /dev/sdx?
Then there was the post about wanting to be able to pull a SATA/eSATA disk in and have the system automatically mount whatever filesystem is on the disk...
On OpenSolaris, SATA hotswapping and device naming is a complete non-issue.