The right way to remove disk drive

Wed Feb 14 11:46:45 UTC 2007

In message <20070214111259.GB60265 at twoflower.idi.ntnu.no>, Ulf Lilleengen write
s:
>On ons, feb 14, 2007 at 11:45:47am +0100, Miroslav Lachman wrote:

>> used by gmirror (gmirror status shows DEGRADED and running on one drive 
>> only), atacontrol lists the drive attached to channel ata3, so I run 
>> command `atacontrol detach ata3`. As stated in manpage "Devices on the 
>> channel are removed from the kernel". Everything goes fine, system is 
>> running.... but if I pull out the drive tray, system hangs and must be 
>> power cycled.

Not all ata controller chips actually support hot-plug.

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