Jeff Lasman spake the following on 4/3/2007 7:40 AM: > On Tuesday 03 April 2007 05:58 am, Les Mikesell wrote: > >> Yes, but there is still the issue of whether the drive will be >> recognized at all when hotplugged. Once the drive is assigned a >> device name by the kernel you will be able to fdisk it. You don't >> need to mount it because the md device will be mounted, not the disk >> partitions. > > Thanks, Les. > > I see where I'm going to have to try this some day soon. All our > systems with hotswap bays are in service; I'll try the experiment on > the next one. > > Jeff It seems unusual to have hotswap cages and not have a hotswap capable controller. I think SAS is hot-swappable, but I really don't think IDE or SATA is, and SCSI might be if it is newer. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!!