On Tue, 21 Sep 1999, Daniel Bidwell wrote:
> > who has had success on hotswapping scsi devices in raid configuration?
> > on which controllers and kernel versions?
> >
> I am usinge a Compaq 2500 with 5 18GB disks, on Debian 2.1, Kernel
> 2.2.12 (with raid patches). We pulled a hotswap disk out and kept
> on using the disk system. A couple of error messages sputtered out
> on the console and it kept on working. We inserted a new unformated
> 18GB disk and did the raidhotremove/raidhotadd thing and it looked like
> it was rebuilding the raid. We rebooted the system and it came up
> without the new disk. I ran fdisk to format the new disk and did the
> raidhotadd thing and it is rebuilding the entire disk. It takes awile.
> It is still running.
yes, you need to fdisk the new disk properly for autostart to work on the
next startup.
-- mingo
