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 You are better off with software raid unless you buy those systems with the add-in 3ware card. Looking around the net, the only software raid solution that I see that says it supports hot-swap and auto-reconstruction is EVMS (evms.sourceforge.net). But RedHat (and CentOS) don't ship with EVMS. I couldn't find anything to say whether the linux MD code does or doesn't support hotswap. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!!