>Use a real hot-swappable drive plane, attached to a good SATA controller >that handles hot-swap in hardware? :) > >Use ZFS, which seems to work better with drives being added/removed than >ata(4)? :) > >Sorry, the few systems we have running FreeBSD either have single IDE >drives, single SATA drives, or 12-24 SATA drives attached to a hardware
>hot-swappable drive-plane connected to 3Ware 9550/9650 RAID controllers. >The single-drive systems obviously can't do swapping, and the rest work >without issues. I should further clarified that we are running 4-drive systems, with drive sizes ranging from 250GB-1TB. These drives are not in a RAID cluster and we do not want them to be. We do need the drives to be hot swappable though. I'll contact 3Ware and go from there. Thanks for the reply. _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"