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    SubjectRe: Anybody know about nforce4 SATA II hot swapping + linux raid?
    Andrew Walrond wrote:
    > I need to deploy some very resilient servers with hot swapable drives.
    [snip]
    > Before I place an order, I need to know whether sata II hot swapping is up to
    > scratch in the linux kernel, and whether it works nicely with linux software
    > raid (which I already use/am familiar with).
    >
    > Any knowledge greatfully accepted :)

    IDE hotswap has never worked (OOTB at least) in Linux, and based on my
    experience it never will. Seems the IDE folks doesn't care a bit
    about it. (No offence meant. Just keeping it real.)

    So if you really need this, here's the opportunity to make a whole lot
    of people happy by implementing it yourself. You'll probably need a
    lot of time on your hands - there's a very real chance that the IDE
    maintainers are too busy or whatever to answer any newbie questions
    you might have about how to attack the IDE layer.


    Tejun Heo wrote:
    > If you're looking for stability/resilience for production machine,
    > IMHO libata isn't still quite ready.

    I disagree...
    I've used it for TBs of data without any problems.

    OTOH, with the regular ATA stuff I've experienced loads of IRQ
    problems, crashes and hangups.
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