Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] eSATA / USB disks as media for Bacula

2009-11-13 08:09:03
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] eSATA / USB disks as media for Bacula
From: John Drescher <drescherjm AT gmail DOT com>
To: Bruno Friedmann <bruno AT ioda-net DOT ch>, bacula-users <Bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 08:05:49 -0500
> Just an add to the previous great comments.
>
> If you envisage to use e-sata, check that your chipset/bios support 
> hot-replace/add.
> It's working nicely with laptop, but not always for a vaste majority of 
> "cheap" motherboard.
>
> Mine a Asus M2N-Pro support e-sata : but only on cold restart (jmicron and 
> 2.6.27 kernel)
> Sadly I've to use the usb-2 ...

I am pretty sure the regular SATA ports on this board (nvidia chipset
ones) support hot swap. I say that because I have 3 or 4 of my linux
raid servers at work using M2Ns and I have definitely hot swapped
drives on them.

John

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