Re: Hot swapping SATA drives

2008-11-25 Thread Henrik Hudson
On Tue, 25 Nov 2008, Peter Steele wrote: > >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

Re: Hot swapping SATA drives

2008-11-25 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
"Peter Steele" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've done some searches regarding FreeBSD's 7 support for the hot > swapping of SATA drives and the general consensus appears that it *is* > supported, but not necessarily with all drive models/brands. Make sure the SATA controller is running in AHCI mo

RE: Hot swapping SATA drives

2008-11-25 Thread Peter Steele
>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

Re: Hot swapping SATA drives

2008-11-25 Thread Freddie Cash
On November 25, 2008 08:53 am Peter Steele wrote: > Is there any solution to this? Can a server be built around FreeBSD > that supports hot swappable SATA drives? Use a real hot-swappable drive plane, attached to a good SATA controller that handles hot-swap in hardware? :) Use ZFS, which seems