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Re: SATA hot-swap support in etch?



On Wed, 27 Jun 2007 19:17:16 +0100
Marcin Owsiany <porridge@debian.org> wrote:

> Do you know whether the kernel in etch supports device hotplug (i.e.
> "yank the drive") for SATA?
> 
> http://linux-ata.org/software-status.html#hotplug talks about pre-2.6.19
> kernels...

Not exactly the answer to your question but have a look at 3ware RAID 
controllers, they show them selve as SCSI device to the kernel but have 2-8 
hotplug-able interfaces for SATA drives so that the kernel does not have to 
care about hotplugging.

bye,

-christian-



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