Uhm, I'm reasonably sure there's more to hot swap than the physical and electrical connections.
I'd thus do a little more research on the topic (like reading the datasheet(s) for your motherboard and SATA chipset) to ensure that the hardware supports it. There also may be a requirement for you to manually tell the OS to "detach" and "attach" disk devices. Adrian On Sat, May 16, 2009, Grahame Kelly wrote: > Hi David. > > As long as the drive in un-mounted you can safely remove/insert a > device. You just need to make sure the drive Power connections allow > hot-swapping, but generally you will get away with it normally if you > haven't such PSU plug h/w. Just be aware that your PSU will require > better "surge" power - so if your current PSU is a bit iffy, it will > probably fail in time has been my experience. > > Hope this helps. > Cheers. Grahame > > >From: david <[email protected]> > >Date: 15 May 2009 11:58:14 PM > >To: [email protected] > >Subject: [SLUG] hot swapping hard drives > > > > > >I've just installed a sata hard drive bay for a second drive, the > >kind that has a little front door so you can slip the drive in and > >out. > > > >The point of installing it was to make it easy to change drives when > >doing backups, but I had assumed that I would have to shut down > >before taking the drive in or out. > > > >When I unmount it, Gnome announces that I can now remove the media, > >which surprised me a bit. Should I assume that this means I can > >safely hot swap this drive as long as it's unmounted? The nice man > >in the shop assured me that I needed all sorts of mobo magic to be > >able to do that, but of course he was talking Windows. I would hate > >to splat 500G of backup. > > > >Thanks, > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- - Xenion - http://www.xenion.com.au/ - VPS Hosting - Commercial Squid Support - - $25/pm entry-level VPSes w/ capped bandwidth charges available in WA - -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
