Lamar Owen wrote:
>>>>> Should it be possible to hot-swap SATA drives with Centos5?
>
>>>> 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...
>
> That was mine. Still working on it.
>
> As to the hardware support, the definitive answer is found at
> www.linux-ata.org
Thanks - the problem must be the Promise controller. I'll have to dig
up something else.
> As to device naming, use LABEL= to fix that. SCSI device naming on Linux
> stinks.
Can grub deal with that for the /boot partition? A default install on a
scsi drive that came in after the sata's wouldn't boot if I removed one
of the sata disks.
What I want to end up with is the system on a pair of raid 1 scsi
drives, then a 3-member raid1 mounted separately where one is
periodically swapped out and taken offsite. I'm currently doing
something similar with 2 IDE and one firewire drive but the firewire
driver doesn't seem reliable enough to leave the drive connected much
longer than it takes to sync.
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