Jeff Lasman spake the following on 4/3/2007 8:42 AM:
On Tuesday 03 April 2007 08:14 am, Scott Silva wrote:
It seems unusual to have hotswap cages and not have a hotswap capable controller.
Which is why I want to do some testing.
I think SAS is hot-swappable, but I really don't think IDE or SATA is, and SCSI might be if it is newer.
Definitely SATA. Definitely hotswap.
http://www.serversdirect.com/config.asp?config_id=SDR-5015M-T+B
We've been using this configuration for some time; some of the details may have changed.
According to linuxmafia:
http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sata.html#intel-ich7
It's fake RAID and we've always set it up as software RAID.
(Maybe we shouldn't be?)
Jeff
Looking at the manual for that system, the drives are hot-swappable - even with the onboard controller, but I am not sure if the linux software raid supports hotswap. I guess you will have to test it.