Hoosgot

http://blog.nixternal.com/2008.07.10/non-raid-hot-swapping-help-needed/ asks Hoosgot,

OK, since the lazyweb totally owned in helping me locate a killer portable media device, I can use your help once again. I have Googled and Googled until my eyes have exploded, and I have yet to find the answer I am looking for. The question….Can you hot swap, not warm swap, SATA drives in Linux without having them a) setup in RAID, and b) not using a hardware RAID controller card? Someone told me that you can and the kernel works out of the box that way. Well, whoever told me was wrong. I have tried it in Red Hat, CentOS, Ubuntu, and SUSE. No go, the kernel panics and blows up and I have to call the Chicago …

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