Midrange and highend Sun hardware can hot-swap PCI cards. I have done a PCI Fibre-Channel card hot-swap on a Running Sun E6800, I also played with it on an E25K, but haven't had any of the PCI cards on the E25Ks I manage fail.
On 12/28/06, Michael Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
As long as the RAID card supports HOT swapping drives you are fine. SCSI,SATA and SAS all support hot swapping or hot plugging drives. What connectors on the motherboard are you referring too? Do you want to pull PCI cards while the system is up and running? I've yet to see this done successfully on HP-UX hardware and Solaris Hardware as well. I don't know of any PCI cards that you can swap HOT under linux. When you pull the drive make sure it is unmounted. Then remove the drive so that it is disconnected from the back plane of the drive cage. Wait 3 or 4 minutes the drive should have stopped spinning after 2 minutes and then remove the drive. Miller On 12/28/06, Garl Grigsby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Michael Miller wrote: > > You should not have a issue with hot swapping as long as the hardware > > controller supports it. > Ok, now for the $10k question: How do you know? I know the raid card > supports it (I had to email several people to find out), but what about > the motherboard connectors? > > If you do have a issue with the drives not > > showing up in a dmesg. Then all you need too do is run a script that > > scans the SCSI bus. Other than that you should not have any issues > > hot swapping drives. I would caution you on ripping out drives that > > have not finished spinning down. Not a good idea. > Ok, how to spin the drive down before you remove them? > > Garl > > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug > _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
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