Bowie Bailey wrote:
> Les Mikesell wrote:
>> Bowie Bailey wrote:
>>   
>>> Next time I do a swap, I'll bring the system back up with 2 drives and
>>> then try to hot-add the third and watch dmesg.  If I see the drive
>>> detected, what do I need to do to get udev to create the device file
>>> (CentOS 4)?
>>>     
>> I'm not sure about Centos4, but I think it should work.  With Centos 5, 
>> it automatically adds the next-available scsi device name and detects 
>> the partitions.  And it releases those names when you physically remove 
>> the drive.
>>   
> 
> I tried it this time and no such luck.  dmesg shows nothing at all when
> I insert the drive and the device file is not created.  I think I'm
> stuck with restarting to recognize the new drive each time.

This may relate to your SATA controller more than the Centos version.  I 
have a Promise card that doesn't recognize hotswaps but the others I've 
tried do.  There used to be a page listing various SATA controllers and 
their support status with linux but none of the links I can find now are 
working.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com


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