Jeff Lasman wrote:
> 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.
Usually the 'dmesg' command will show newly detected devices. I'm just
not sure how it works with SATA.
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Les Mikesell
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