Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 22:09:55 +0100 From: Scott Mitchell <scott+lists.freebsd@fishballoon.org> To: Alex Franks <arfranks@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hot-Swapping hard drives on Dell PowerEdge 2850 running FBSD 5.5-PRE Message-ID: <20060622210955.GA1088@tuatara.fishballoon.org> In-Reply-To: <2f488c030606221106q4183de17gbff80d696f704505@mail.gmail.com> References: <2f488c030606221106q4183de17gbff80d696f704505@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 11:06:17AM -0700, Alex Franks wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm getting ready to install 2 identical drives into the available > drive bays in my 2850. However, it would be highly preferable that > this machine NOT be shut down in order to install these drives. I know > from looking at the docs that these drive bays are hot-swappable, but > I'd like to know before I attempt this that someone else out there has > successfully performed a hot-swap or hot-install of drives on a 2850 > or comparable Dell PowerEdge running FreeBSD. I've swapped drives on an 1850 with no problems - the drives were in a RAID-1 configuration and the OS didn't even notice that anything had happened. If you're not using hardware RAID I guess a "camcontrol rescan" or something similar might be needed for the new drives to be recognised? Cheers, Scott -- =========================================================================== Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucked into jet engines" scott at fishballoon.org | 0xAA775B8B | -- Anon
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