[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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