hotplug scsi - just unplug a hard drive?

sepp · Guru Joined: 11 Jul 2002 Posts: 330

I got myself a shiny new server that has a raid 1 scsi system which is hotplug enabled. now my question: can I just remove a harddrive on runtime an plug in a new one or do I have to somehow tell the system that I'm going to remove a harddrive?

KingTaco · Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2004 2:08 am Post subject:

you really should tell the system that you are removing the drive. depending on how you do RAID, this will be different.
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stonent · Veteran Joined: 07 Aug 2003 Posts: 1139 Location: Texas

If you have a scsi hardware raid, then the OS shouldn't even really care about it. I can live swap drives on my old PowerEdge 6100 and it will rebuild them on the fly and the OS doesn't even know.
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