From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 22 23:29:06 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C683C16A541 for ; Thu, 22 Jun 2006 23:29:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scott@fishballoon.org) Received: from queue02-winn.ispmail.ntl.com (queue02-winn.ispmail.ntl.com [81.103.221.56]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A8FC45A8A for ; Thu, 22 Jun 2006 22:31:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scott@fishballoon.org) Received: from aamtaout01-winn.ispmail.ntl.com ([81.103.221.35]) by mtaout01-winn.ispmail.ntl.com with ESMTP id <20060622210958.MBBJ15018.mtaout01-winn.ispmail.ntl.com@aamtaout01-winn.ispmail.ntl.com>; Thu, 22 Jun 2006 22:09:58 +0100 Received: from llama.fishballoon.org ([81.101.128.185]) by aamtaout01-winn.ispmail.ntl.com with ESMTP id <20060622210958.TNUY19763.aamtaout01-winn.ispmail.ntl.com@llama.fishballoon.org>; Thu, 22 Jun 2006 22:09:58 +0100 Received: from tuatara.fishballoon.org ([192.168.1.6]) by llama.fishballoon.org with esmtp (Exim 4.61 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1FtWR2-0005mb-GH; Thu, 22 Jun 2006 22:09:56 +0100 Received: (from scott@localhost) by tuatara.fishballoon.org (8.13.4/8.13.4/Submit) id k5ML9umr001185; Thu, 22 Jun 2006 22:09:56 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from scott) Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 22:09:55 +0100 From: Scott Mitchell To: Alex Franks Message-ID: <20060622210955.GA1088@tuatara.fishballoon.org> References: <2f488c030606221106q4183de17gbff80d696f704505@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <2f488c030606221106q4183de17gbff80d696f704505@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE i386 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hot-Swapping hard drives on Dell PowerEdge 2850 running FBSD 5.5-PRE X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 23:29:06 -0000 On Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 11:06:17AM -0700, Alex Franks wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm getting ready to install 2 identical drives into the available > drive bays in my 2850. However, it would be highly preferable that > this machine NOT be shut down in order to install these drives. I know > from looking at the docs that these drive bays are hot-swappable, but > I'd like to know before I attempt this that someone else out there has > successfully performed a hot-swap or hot-install of drives on a 2850 > or comparable Dell PowerEdge running FreeBSD. I've swapped drives on an 1850 with no problems - the drives were in a RAID-1 configuration and the OS didn't even notice that anything had happened. If you're not using hardware RAID I guess a "camcontrol rescan" or something similar might be needed for the new drives to be recognised? Cheers, Scott -- =========================================================================== Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucked into jet engines" scott at fishballoon.org | 0xAA775B8B | -- Anon