From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ming Zhang Subject: Re: Hardware versus Software Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 19:23:26 -0400 Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <1085009006.4948.202.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: Reply-To: mingz@ele.uri.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: To: Ricky Beam Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids 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 -- -------------------------------------------------- | Ming Zhang, PhD. Student | Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering | College of Engineering | University of Rhode Island | Kingston RI. 02881 | e-mail: mingz at ele.uri.edu | Tel. (401) 874-2293 | Fax. (401) 782-6422 | http://www.ele.uri.edu/~mingz/ --------------------------------------------------