Most hot swap stuff has the drives in caddys that fit in a mount. The mount contains power connections and drive connections. the caddy has cables for the disk data and power that go to a connector on the caddy. The caddy slides into the mount and the connections are made. Some caddies have a lock on the front that cuts off power when unlocked for removal.
> > From: Etaoin Shrdlu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2006/02/10 Fri PM 02:50:24 EST > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] 3ware SATA Raid > > First of all, thanks for your answer. > > On Friday 10 February 2006 19:39, Rick van Hattem wrote: > > > You are correct, you are able to hot-swap the drives without rebooting > > or anything. > > > > I have a 3ware 7506-12 card and I'm able to hot-swap drives aswell, > > the drivers work very good and the management tool allows you to > > create/modify/rebuild raid arrays without rebooting. > > But how do you actually hot-swap the drives? Does the disk that is going > to be removed have to be somehow powered off (eg, via some switch in the > backplane or in the enclosure) before? (Sorry for the dumb questions, I > read a reasonable amount of documents about RAID but actually I never > had to deal with it in the real life - until now of course). > > Is the management tool opensource or is it a binary proprietary program? > > > But...... Areca cards are a lot faster for the serial ata stuff, > > altough I'm not sure about there linux driver support, it's worth to > > take a look at there stuff :) > > Well, areca is in fact the other brand I was interested in (together with > LSI)...I'm not sure, but they seem to use marvell chipset; there is > support for it in the kernel, although the driver is still experimental > (but they mantain a separate opensource driver). Don't know about their > management tools (infos are welcome). > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
