[CentOS] Hot swapping drives

Mon Apr 16 03:15:00 UTC 2007
Feizhou <feizhou at graffiti.net>

John Summerfield wrote:
> Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:
>>
>>    If I have a board that supports hot swapping SATA drives, what do I 
>> need to have in terms of installed utilities for it to work with 
>> CentOS 4?  (There's all kinds of information from the board's manual 
>> for things like Windows flavors, but nothing on unix, as to always...)
>>
> 
> Electrically, the same as for Windows ought to apply.
> 
>  From the software pov, how can it be more complication than USB storage?
> 
> 
> 

AFAIK there is NO hotswap support in Centos 4 unless libata with hotswap 
support was backported to the latest Centos 4 errata kernel.