Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 11:12:57 +0200 From: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no> To: "Stephen Hocking" <stephen.hocking@gmail.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD & Hot pluggable disks (SATA?) Message-ID: <86abtj34va.fsf@ds4.des.no> In-Reply-To: <6300771b0707252356i3e902d6ch7919ddbb70d411e7@mail.gmail.com> (Stephen Hocking's message of "Thu\, 26 Jul 2007 16\:56\:37 %2B1000") References: <6300771b0707252356i3e902d6ch7919ddbb70d411e7@mail.gmail.com>
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"Stephen Hocking" <stephen.hocking@gmail.com> writes: > Have been looking at FreeNAS (http://www.freenas.org/) and thinking > about the iSCSI portion of it. At the moment the box requires you to > shutdown when a disk fails in order to replace it. Is this a feature > of the GEOM RAID stuff? Is it possible (assuming suitable hardware) to > have hot-pluggable disks under the control of GEOM? It is a function of the disk controller and driver. AFAIK, the ata driver supports hot-plug as long as the SATA controller does. I believe most Promise and Intel ICH SATA controllers do, not sure about Sil or nVidia MCP. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no
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