Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751069AbVJHTJb (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Oct 2005 15:09:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751094AbVJHTJb (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Oct 2005 15:09:31 -0400 Received: from shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net ([24.71.223.10]:6446 "EHLO pd3mo3so.prod.shaw.ca") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751069AbVJHTJa (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Oct 2005 15:09:30 -0400 Date: Sat, 08 Oct 2005 13:09:13 -0600 From: Robert Hancock Subject: Re: Anybody know about nforce4 SATA II hot swapping + linux raid? In-reply-to: <4VnSe-hv-15@gated-at.bofh.it> To: linux-kernel Message-id: <43481959.2080807@shaw.ca> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: en-us, en References: <4UXuH-EU-31@gated-at.bofh.it> <4VhD6-79H-7@gated-at.bofh.it> <4VnSe-hv-15@gated-at.bofh.it> User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 875 Lines: 22 Molle Bestefich wrote: > IDE hotswap has never worked (OOTB at least) in Linux, and based on my > experience it never will. Seems the IDE folks doesn't care a bit > about it. (No offence meant. Just keeping it real.) If you mean IDE as in PATA, it's not supported in the kernel because PATA hardware does not generally support hotswap, the controllers and drives are not designed for it. SATA is very different in regards to hardware capabilities and kernel support for hotswap.. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from hancockr@nospamshaw.ca Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/