[CentOS] Hot swap SATA?

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?

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   Les Mikesell
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