Quoting "J. Epperson" <[email protected]>:

> There's the 3/Di RAID controller, requiring the key to enable, shame on
> Dell, and a vanilla SCSI non-raid onboard.  My use for it was always for a
> tape drive, never saw one with the disks in the nominal "base"
> configuration of plain SCSI, although you could certainly do that and use
> software RAID.

All my 2650's are SCSI based, without the raid key.  They hot swap fine
_IF_ the system detects the drive as dead, and _IF_ you know how to
poke the right info into /proc or have faith in one of the programs to
make the kernel see a new drive after insertion.

In other words, without the raid, they are physically hot-swapable, but
the OS needs help to know about the swap.  With the raid card, they are
both physically hot-swapable and the OS needs no help.

-- 
Eric Rostetter
The Department of Physics
The University of Texas at Austin

Go Longhorns!

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