"Stephen Hocking" <stephen.hocking@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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Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no
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