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Date:      Thu, 26 Jul 2007 11:12:57 +0200
From:      =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no>
To:        "Stephen Hocking" <stephen.hocking@gmail.com>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD & Hot pluggable disks (SATA?)
Message-ID:  <86abtj34va.fsf@ds4.des.no>
In-Reply-To: <6300771b0707252356i3e902d6ch7919ddbb70d411e7@mail.gmail.com> (Stephen Hocking's message of "Thu\, 26 Jul 2007 16\:56\:37 %2B1000")
References:  <6300771b0707252356i3e902d6ch7919ddbb70d411e7@mail.gmail.com>

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"Stephen Hocking" <stephen.hocking@gmail.com> writes:
> Have been looking at FreeNAS (http://www.freenas.org/) and thinking
> about the iSCSI portion of it. At the moment the box requires you to
> shutdown when a disk fails in order to replace it. Is this a feature
> of the GEOM RAID stuff? Is it possible (assuming suitable hardware) to
> have hot-pluggable disks under the control of GEOM?

It is a function of the disk controller and driver.  AFAIK, the ata
driver supports hot-plug as long as the SATA controller does.  I believe
most Promise and Intel ICH SATA controllers do, not sure about Sil or
nVidia MCP.

DES
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Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no



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