On 10/6/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Vram</b> <<a href="mailto:lamsokvr@xprt.net">lamsokvr@xprt.net</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Does Ubuntu support Hot Swappable SATA Drives?<br><br>TIA<br><br>Vram</blockquote><div><br>
I'm going to guess no on this one (which is a shame, as I 'm installing
a new server with hot-swap SATA drives in it next
week). <br>
</div><br></div>I think <a href="http://linux.yyz.us/sata/">http://linux.yyz.us/sata/</a> is the official
status of page Linux kernel support for SATA, and the infrastructure
for hot swap appears to be still in development. (Either that, or
someone else is doing a very good job of pretending to be the SATA
maintainer and telling the truth about everything but hotplug
support). Based on that, I think it's rather unlikely that Ubuntu
has installed the highly experimental patches for it, and even unlikely
to be ready for the next release. I plan to treat mine as drives
that are just very easy to cold-swap for now; that machine cost too
much for me to be experimenting with it :-)<br>