Re: Re[2]: IDE ATA RAID under Linux
On Wed, 2003-05-07 at 23:13, Derek Chew En-Hock wrote:
> Hello jennyw,
>
> Thursday, May 8, 2003, 8:43:43 AM, you wrote:
>
> j> On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 11:47:09PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote:
>
> j> Does this mean that you think that existing hardware RAID hot swap
> j> technology is a bit lacking?
>
> For SCSI RAID, hot swapping isn't any issue... even for 3ware
> controllers utilising 3ware hot swap cage (RDC-300), a restart might
> be required for you to detect the replaced drive... of cource you can
> plug out the drive and replace it when the system is still running and
> schedule a restart during lunch/off hours...
Since the HDD in the 3ware hot swap cage would be isolated from the
PCI's electrical system and it's IDE subsystem, it should be possible
to do IDE hot-swapping without Linux barfing, and that's what 3ware
claims...
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