From: Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca>
To: Richard Scobie <richard@sauce.co.nz>
Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Hot swapping drives
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 20:31:10 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4807EBCE.9020004@rtr.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4807C1C1.4070808@sauce.co.nz>
Richard Scobie wrote:
> Apologies if this is the wrong list for this.
>
> I have a SAS backplane filled with 16 SATA drives.
>
> Assuming a drive is unmounted or failed and removed from an md array, is
> it safe to directly pull the drive and insert a new one, or are there
> other commands required in order to remove power from it first?
>
> Just concerned about electrical damage to drive/backplane here.
..
It should be quite safe, so long as software isn't accessing the drive.
-ml
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2008-04-17 21:31 Hot swapping drives Richard Scobie
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