Feizhou wrote: > AFAIK there is NO hotswap support in Centos 4 unless libata with > hotswap support was backported to the latest Centos 4 errata kernel. I figured that out when I shoved the drive in and CentOS 4 just stared at me, like nothing happened... Note: I have since then rebuild the machine with CentOS 5, and since doing so the drives were already in the chassis so I never tried doing this with v5 yet. Maybe some time in the future as we add more drives to the system... -- H | It's not a bug - it's an undocumented feature. +-------------------------------------------------------------------- Ashley M. Kirchner <mailto:ashley at pcraft.com> . 303.442.6410 x130 IT Director / SysAdmin / Websmith . 800.441.3873 x130 Photo Craft Imaging . 3550 Arapahoe Ave. #6 http://www.pcraft.com ..... . . . Boulder, CO 80303, U.S.A.