Re: Recommendations for servers running SATA drives [hot-swap]

2008-10-26 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 01:41:58PM +0100, Miroslav Lachman wrote: > Jeremy Chadwick wrote: >> On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 04:09:17PM +0200, Miroslav Lachman wrote: >> >>> Jeremy Chadwick wrote: >>> On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 01:50:38PM +0200, Miroslav Lachman wrote: > Jeremy Chadwick wrote:

Re: Recommendations for servers running SATA drives [hot-swap]

2008-10-26 Thread Miroslav Lachman
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 04:09:17PM +0200, Miroslav Lachman wrote: Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 01:50:38PM +0200, Miroslav Lachman wrote: Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 09:30:20PM +0200, Miroslav Lachman wrote: Today I was replacing

Re: Recommendations for servers running SATA drives [hot-swap]

2008-10-17 Thread Miroslav Lachman
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 04:09:17PM +0200, Miroslav Lachman wrote: Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 01:50:38PM +0200, Miroslav Lachman wrote: Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 09:30:20PM +0200, Miroslav Lachman wrote: Today I was replaci

Re: Recommendations for servers running SATA drives [hot-swap]

2008-10-17 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 04:09:17PM +0200, Miroslav Lachman wrote: > Jeremy Chadwick wrote: >> On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 01:50:38PM +0200, Miroslav Lachman wrote: >>> Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 09:30:20PM +0200, Miroslav Lachman wrote: > Today I was replacing dis

Re: Recommendations for servers running SATA drives [hot-swap]

2008-10-17 Thread Miroslav Lachman
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 01:50:38PM +0200, Miroslav Lachman wrote: Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 09:30:20PM +0200, Miroslav Lachman wrote: Today I was replacing disk in one Sun Fire X2100 M2 so I tried hot-swapping. It was as you said: atacontrol de

Re: Recommendations for servers running SATA drives [hot-swap]

2008-10-17 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 01:50:38PM +0200, Miroslav Lachman wrote: > Jeremy Chadwick wrote: >> On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 09:30:20PM +0200, Miroslav Lachman wrote: >> >>> Today I was replacing disk in one Sun Fire X2100 M2 so I tried >>> hot-swapping. It was as you said: atacontrol detach ata3, repl

Re: Recommendations for servers running SATA drives [hot-swap]

2008-10-17 Thread Miroslav Lachman
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 09:30:20PM +0200, Miroslav Lachman wrote: Today I was replacing disk in one Sun Fire X2100 M2 so I tried hot-swapping. It was as you said: atacontrol detach ata3, replace the HDD, atacontrol attach ata3 and new disk is in the system. I tried it

Re: Recommendations for servers running SATA drives [hot-swap]

2008-10-16 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 09:30:20PM +0200, Miroslav Lachman wrote: > Today I was replacing disk in one Sun Fire X2100 M2 so I tried > hot-swapping. It was as you said: atacontrol detach ata3, replace the > HDD, atacontrol attach ata3 and new disk is in the system. I tried it 3 > times to be su

Re: Recommendations for servers running SATA drives [hot-swap]

2008-10-16 Thread Miroslav Lachman
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 05:25:32PM +0200, Miroslav Lachman wrote: It was about year ago with Asus and Sun Fire X2100. I don't have Asus servers now (all returned as reclamation). Now I am running one X2100 and about ten X2100 M2. I have one spare X2100 M2, so if somebo

Re: Recommendations for servers running SATA drives [hot-swap]

2008-09-29 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 05:25:32PM +0200, Miroslav Lachman wrote: > It was about year ago with Asus and Sun Fire X2100. I don't have Asus > servers now (all returned as reclamation). Now I am running one X2100 > and about ten X2100 M2. I have one spare X2100 M2, so if somebody have > exact or

Re: Recommendations for servers running SATA drives [hot-swap]

2008-09-29 Thread Miroslav Lachman
Gavin Atkinson wrote: On Mon, 2008-09-29 at 15:43 +0200, Miroslav Lachman wrote: Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 03:16:11PM -0400, Charles Sprickman wrote: I've successfully done a hot-swap (hardware: SATA hot-swap backplane, AHCI in use, SATA2 disks), but it required me to i

Re: Recommendations for servers running SATA drives

2008-09-29 Thread Gavin Atkinson
On Mon, 2008-09-29 at 15:43 +0200, Miroslav Lachman wrote: > Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > > On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 03:16:11PM -0400, Charles Sprickman wrote: > > > > I've successfully done a hot-swap (hardware: SATA hot-swap backplane, > > AHCI in use, SATA2 disks), but it required me to issue "at

Re: Recommendations for servers running SATA drives

2008-09-29 Thread Miroslav Lachman
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 03:16:11PM -0400, Charles Sprickman wrote: On Fri, 26 Sep 2008, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: [...] This also leads me a little off-topic -- when it comes to disk replacements, administrators want to be able to do this without taking the system down.

Re: Recommendations for servers running SATA drives

2008-09-27 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 03:16:11PM -0400, Charles Sprickman wrote: > On Fri, 26 Sep 2008, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: >> Let's be realistic. We're talking about ATA and SATA hard disks, hooked >> up to on-board controllers -- these are the majority of users. Those >> with ATA/SATA RAID controllers (no

Recommendations for servers running SATA drives

2008-09-27 Thread Charles Sprickman
I'm forking the thread on fsck/soft-updates in hopes of getting some practical advice based on the discussion here of background fsck, softupdates and write-caching on SATA drives. On Fri, 26 Sep 2008, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: Let's be realistic. We're talking about ATA and SATA hard disks, ho