Re: Hot-removing SCSI disk freezes woody RAID system - SOLVED

[George Karaolides <george.karaolides@planitis.net>]

> > > looks like a hardware problem. are you using a SCA hot swap 
> > > backplane?
> > > or a SCA->68pin adapter?
> > 
> > Six-disk Ultra-Wide SCSI SCA backplane, Tekram DC-390F SCSI host
> > adapter.
>
> Not sure no..only other thing I can think of is try hot swapping
> before the driver loads(e.g. at lilo/grub prompt or at the bios)
> to see if the machine freezes there too. beyond that I can only
> suggest trying another SCSI card.
>
Thanks for pointing me in the right direction (SCSI host adapter). 
Enabling the SCAM support in the SCSI BIOS did the trick.  I removed a
disk, RAID reconstruction started immediately and mdadm sent me an
email.  Good stuff.

Thanks and best regards,

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