Hot swapping SATA drives

[Peter Steele]

>Use a real hot-swappable drive plane, attached to a good SATA
controller 
>that handles hot-swap in hardware?  :)
>
>Use ZFS, which seems to work better with drives being added/removed
than 
>ata(4)?  :)
>
>Sorry, the few systems we have running FreeBSD either have single IDE 
>drives, single SATA drives, or 12-24 SATA drives attached to a hardware

>hot-swappable drive-plane connected to 3Ware 9550/9650 RAID
controllers.  
>The single-drive systems obviously can't do swapping, and the rest work

>without issues.

I should further clarified that we are running 4-drive systems, with
drive sizes ranging from 250GB-1TB. These drives are not in a RAID
cluster and we do not want them to be. We do need the drives to be hot
swappable though. I'll contact 3Ware and go from there.

Thanks for the reply.