Comments on: Hotswap a SCSI, SAS, or SATA drive in Linux

By: Phil Dufault

Phil Dufault — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 05:52:11 +0000

And you were running the drives in RAID, right?

By: kemcho

kemcho — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 20:28:03 +0000

Majority of my servers are SLES, and only had two instances where drive failed. Only once, I had to reboot but that was because a bug in controller card.
Linux Rocks!

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By: Phil Dufault

Phil Dufault — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 21:30:17 +0000

Depends — some times it’ll handle nicely. Other times, it requires convincing. However, don’t even get me started on an anti-Windows rant.

By: Roman Tarnavski

Roman Tarnavski — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 05:36:23 +0000

Am surprised that how often linux is used in server installations, that a drive-replacement requires a reboot. Damn – even windows copes with it fine.

Can’t wait for these scripts, and I hope they get integrated into the likes of Ubuntu quickly.

By: Phil Dufault

Phil Dufault — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 22:51:32 +0000

Cool, enjoy then Bob. I’ll be release a shell script one day that’ll reprobe the SCSI, SAS, or SATA controller for newly plugged in drives.

One day.

By: Bob Mitchell

Bob Mitchell — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 22:13:31 +0000

For reasons I won’t go into the Sun boxes are just as likely to be running Linux. Don’t ask.

By: Phil Dufault

Phil Dufault — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 21:46:28 +0000

Not sure how well this’ll work on a Sun box, since this is using the Linux-only /sys, but let me know how you fair out.

Cheers

By: Bob Mitchell

Bob Mitchell — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 21:32:28 +0000

I don’t have a better method right now, but I’m going to note this down as I run a small number of Sun boxen with SAS drives.

None have failed yet, but there has to be a first.