IIRC, the SATA standard always supports hotplug. The drivers don't
always, but the support has improved massively in recent Linux kernels.
That said, I won't be responsible for your data loss / hardware damage ;)
FWIW, I hotplug regular sata all the time.
-Michael
Phill Coxon wrote:
I just bought one of these nifty hot swappable esata drive bays:
http://icute.com.tw/english/iSwap201.htm
I want to use it for off site backups i.e.: backup to the drive, pop it
out to take off site and replace with another drive.
Can anyone here confirm I'm right in thinking that I'll need to buy
esata drives that are designed for RAID / Enterprise use?
From what I can figure out it looks like RAID drives support
hot-swapping with power on where normal internal drives do not.
Anyone else on this list hot-swapping drives?
I'm running Kubuntu 7.10.
Thanks.
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-Michael Fincham
Unleash Technology Solutions
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