From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark Lord Subject: Re: Hot swapping drives Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 20:31:10 -0400 Message-ID: <4807EBCE.9020004@rtr.ca> References: <4807C1C1.4070808@sauce.co.nz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from rtr.ca ([76.10.145.34]:2438 "EHLO mail.rtr.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752838AbYDRAbL (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Apr 2008 20:31:11 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4807C1C1.4070808@sauce.co.nz> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Richard Scobie Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org 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