Garl, As long as you have the drives unmounted when you swap them. You will be fine, make sure the card supports hot swapping. I am guessing you are putting the drives into a cage / JBOD? You may also need to use a script too rescan the SCSI bus when you put in the new drives. There is a script out there that does this. I think if you do a search on google for fibre channel SCSI rescan you will find it.
Miller On 12/21/06, Garl Grigsby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Ok, The time has come. I need to look into Hot swap SATA. Anybody have any real world experience? I'm looking for information on both cages and OS stability. The OS will be CentOS 4.4. Drives will be 250-400 GB SATA drives. I at least need 3 drives. Two are connected to a 3Ware 80062LPKIT SATA Raid Card. The third will be connected directly to the MB. The third drive is connected for only 2 days a week (backup drive). I will need Hot swap to work in to different situations: 1) Currently I am doing weekly backups to a USB HDD that is stored off site. I would like to move to a SATA drive as USB is slooooow. For this to work I need reliable hot swap/add/remove. 2) In the case that one of the drives in the raid array dies, I'd like to be able to replace it without downing the server. So, is SATA Hot swap ready for prime time? Should I wait? Comments, experience, suggestions are all appreciated. Thanks, Garl _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
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