I'm working on the driver to support Consensys RAIDZONE under Linux.
See http://www.raidzone.com
The RAID 0/1/4/5 is provided in software in the usual way.
This product uses Ultra ATA (a.k.a. IDE) drives connected to the system
with an 5 or 8 drive enclosure that provides the hot-swappable support.
The enclosure includes several features that are required to do raid
properly. Such as
- the ability to power up and down drives individually
- the ability to monitor the power supply levels at the drive.
- the ability to sense the removal of the drive.
- per drive activity and state leds
- the ability to monitor the enclosure temperature
- cooling fans with current sensing to detect failure.
- hot add feature
Hot-Add is where you can add an additional drive at any time
as long as you have an empty slot in the enclosure.
Both Hot-Swap and, especially, Hot-Add require changes to the
IDE sub-system to initialize the new disk drive.
Steve.
-----Original Message-----
From: Seth Vidal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: A James Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: a.loots <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thursday, April 22, 1999 10:00 AM
Subject: Re: Hot Swap
>> I doubt it, unless the controller is hotswap capable and you can reload
>> the IDE driver .... I don't know of any hotswap capable IDE
>> controllers.... (Not to say that I wouldn't be interested if anyone else
>> on the list does!!!)
>
>I would as well be interested in a hot-swappable ide controller.
>
>-sv
>
