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.