[CentOS] Hot swap SATA?

Feizhou feizhou at graffiti.net
Tue Aug 21 23:39:33 UTC 2007


Les Mikesell wrote:
> Jim Perrin wrote:
> 
>>> Should it be possible to hot-swap SATA drives with Centos5?  It doesn't
>>> seem to work on my system.  Removing an unmounted drive locked the
>>> system up, and leaving one out at bootup makes the devices change names
>>> and keeps grub from finding /boot on a scsi drive that is shifted up.
>>
>> Depends on the SATA controller, but yes. If the controller allows, you
>> can hotswap sata drives.
> 
> How are the names supposed to work when one may be missing at bootup and 
> added later?
> 

I thought the system would just assign the next available /dev/sdx?

Then there was the post about wanting to be able to pull a SATA/eSATA 
disk in and have the system automatically mount whatever filesystem is 
on the disk...

On OpenSolaris, SATA hotswapping and device naming is a complete non-issue.



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