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Subject: Re: hot swap scsi drive
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On Mon, 2004-10-18 at 22:04, luke wrote:
> i have a pe2450 with 4 sca bays. i've tried to find information on
> hotswapping hard drives on google, but to no avail. is there something
> i need to do before i unplug a drive? obviously, i will not have any
> slices from it mounted when i unplug it. also, if i add a drive, do i
> need to rescan the scsi bus somehow? under normal circumstances i
> would just try to pull one and put another in, but i don't want to
> damage a drive or corrupt the data thereon. thanks
> 
> luke

Is this box designed do be hot pluggable? the IBM p-series servers I use
at work have a back plane that allows this and sets the address 

Arden  
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