Les Mikesell wrote:
> 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.
>   

That's about what I thought.  The controller is on the motherboard
(don't remember the model at the moment).  Since I need to shut down
before pulling the old drive to keep consistency with the OS, it's not a
big deal.

-- 
Bowie

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