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From: Ming Zhang <mingz@ele.uri.edu>
To: Ricky Beam <jfbeam@bluetronic.net>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Hardware versus Software
Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 19:23:26 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1085009006.4948.202.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.33.0405191759380.14297-100000@sweetums.bluetronic.net>

So the question here is that if I want to use software raid with SATA,
is there any good hardware combination to support this hot plug? Thanks
a lot.

Ming

On Wed, 2004-05-19 at 18:02, Ricky Beam wrote:
> On Wed, 19 May 2004, Ming Zhang wrote:
> >is there any support from linux that can do this hot swappable a little
> >easier?
> 
> It's not the kernel's fault.  Not entirely... SCSI will let you hot plug
> with little trouble.  IDE is a different problem.
> 
> The real problem is the system hardware.  Aside from SATA, I don't know
> of any MB that openly supports hot plugging of drives without some risk of
> Real Trouble (tm).
> 
> --Ricky
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  reply	other threads:[~2004-05-19 23:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-05-19  6:49 Hardware versus Software AndyLiebman
2004-05-19 19:00 ` Ricky Beam
2004-05-19 20:03   ` Ming Zhang
2004-05-19 22:02     ` Ricky Beam
2004-05-19 23:23       ` Ming Zhang [this message]
2004-05-19 22:30 ` Ben Edwards
2004-05-21 15:57   ` Ricky Beam
2004-05-20  2:00 ` dean gaudet
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-05-21 17:44 Salyzyn, Mark
2004-05-21 18:39 ` Guy
2004-05-21 18:52 Guy

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