Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > But how do you actually hot-swap the drives? Does the disk that is going > to be removed have to be somehow powered off (eg, via some switch in the > backplane or in the enclosure) before?
I think hot-swap is supported by sata itself (I mean hardware side), similar as for usb: grounding pins are longer, i.e. you can just simply pull out power-cable and then data-cable even while your server is on. Or you can buy special swappable enclosures for sata-disk, which is mounted in free external 5 1/4" position (e.g. from ViPowER SwapRack) and easily pull out sata disk from your server... Jarry -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
