Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: hot(un)plugging IDE disks | Date | Fri, 12 Nov 1999 00:58:27 +0000 (GMT) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> PS: with racks come the want of being able to have a linux disk that be > bootable independently from its IDE *and* BIOS numbers. I see no way > to nicely satisfy _both_ constraints in the way things are done currently.
One of the boxes that passed briefly past me when I did some work on it was a rack PC with swappable IDE disk that could boot off /dev/hdc if hda was not present. Very nice and with a little lilo hackery it means it can boot either disk on a failure.
> P^4S: hotplug/hotunplug support could be a great addition to the Linux > software RAID drivers... "Using Linux, transform inexpensive vanilla > hardware into reliable RAID arrays that you can service without rebooting". > THAT would be a great slogan!
We support scsi hot swap. If your bays do. Don't try it otherwise. You can blow the terminator fuses and worse
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