FreeBSD & Hot pluggable disks (SATA?)

[Dag-Erling Smørgrav]

"Stephen Hocking" <stephen.hocking at gmail.com> writes:
> Have been looking at FreeNAS (http://www.freenas.org/) and thinking
> about the iSCSI portion of it. At the moment the box requires you to
> shutdown when a disk fails in order to replace it. Is this a feature
> of the GEOM RAID stuff? Is it possible (assuming suitable hardware) to
> have hot-pluggable disks under the control of GEOM?

It is a function of the disk controller and driver.  AFAIK, the ata
driver supports hot-plug as long as the SATA controller does.  I believe
most Promise and Intel ICH SATA controllers do, not sure about Sil or
nVidia MCP.

DES
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