From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "J. Ryan Earl" Subject: Re: hot plugable? Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 20:51:57 -0500 Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <40808DBD.8060502@clanhk.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from ns.clanhk.org ([69.93.101.154]:494 "EHLO mail.clanhk.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262579AbUDQBvk (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Apr 2004 21:51:40 -0400 In-Reply-To: List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Andreas Jellinghaus Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Andreas Jellinghaus wrote: >Hi is there any ata or sata driver that allows hotplugging with linux? > >combined with software raid, could it be configured, so I can replace a >disk and repair the raid without any reboot necessary? > > I don't think libata supports it yet, so you're SOL with most serialATA controllers. Only certain hardware supports it (ie 3ware), but sometimes hardware performance can be surprising low compared to software RAID solutions. You'd have to test to see which solution worked best for you. -ryan