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 -- Jeff Lasman, Nobaloney Internet Services P.O. Box 52200, Riverside, CA 92517 Our blists address used on lists is for list email only voice: +1 951 643-7540, or see: "http://www.nobaloney.net/contactus.html"