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* Hot swapping drives
@ 2008-04-17 21:31 Richard Scobie
  2008-04-18  0:31 ` Mark Lord
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From: Richard Scobie @ 2008-04-17 21:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-ide

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.

Regards,

Richard

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* Re: Hot swapping drives
  2008-04-17 21:31 Hot swapping drives Richard Scobie
@ 2008-04-18  0:31 ` Mark Lord
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Mark Lord @ 2008-04-18  0:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Richard Scobie; +Cc: linux-ide

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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