Yes SATA drives can be used in a hot swap configuration BUT this is controlled by the SATA controller not the drives. You also need the drives mounted on sleds that fit in to a disk array. The use of hot swap drives is best used with RAID 5 (stripping with parity) where many drives make a very large volume. It is also used in Mirrored configurations, again it's best to use hardware not software for this. Hardware raid is faster then software raid in any case. I know I'll get flamed for that last comment. Sam. Jon Schewe wrote: > Has anyone tried this with a regular SATA card, mine is a Promise > TX-4? I was wondering if I could just open up my case and plug in a > SATA drive to my extra power and data cables while the system is live > (since SATA is supposed to have this hot-swap ability) and get Linux > to recognize the drive. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Jon Schewe | http://mtu.net/~jpschewe <http://mtu.net/%7Ejpschewe> > GPG signature at http://mtu.net/~jpschewe/gpg.sig.html > <http://mtu.net/%7Ejpschewe/gpg.sig.html> > For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels > nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any > powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all > creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that > is in Christ Jesus our Lord. - Romans 8:38-39 > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >_______________________________________________ >TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >tclug-list at mn-linux.org >http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > >