[OpenIndiana-discuss] Automatic reboots

Christopher Chan christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk
Tue Oct 16 22:37:08 UTC 2012


On Wednesday, October 17, 2012 03:32 AM, Andrej Javoršek wrote:
> Hello!
> Also my impression was that not all SATA controllers suport/tolerate hot
> swap and simply puling disk out can damage disk and/or controller!?

Maybe first generation "fake" SataI 1.5gbps speed controllers or lack of 
driver support.

It certainly was present for sil3124

>
> Regards
> Andrej
>
> On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 9:26 PM, Roel_D <openindiana at out-side.nl> wrote:
>
>> Hmz, i was just typing what is written on the harddiskcages:
>> "non-hotswappable"
>>
>> But to be onnest, i didn't know every SATA disk was hotswappable.
>>
>> Kind regards,
>>
>> The out-side
>>
>> Op 16 okt. 2012 om 16:50 heeft Christopher Chan <
>> christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk> het volgende geschreven:
>>
>>> Well, the existence of eSata should have been sufficient to point to
>> sata's builtin hot swap capabilities but ah well.
>>> On Tuesday, October 16, 2012 10:44 PM, Alex Smith (K4RNT) wrote:
>>>> He may not be aware of the hot-swap capabilities, he may be going by
>>>> the fact that they aren't in a backplane type cage, but even on their
>>>> own, SATA and SAS is designed to be hot-swappable.
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 10:40 AM, Christopher Chan
>>>> <christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk> wrote:
>>>>> Er...SATA was designed to be hot swappable from the start? There is no
>> such
>>>>> thing as a non-hot swappable SATA hd. If you meant you can have 4 sata
>> hard
>>>>> disks that are inconvenient to hot swap, then that is fine. You can
>> however
>>>>> get four disk bay cages that facilitate hot swapping by allowing you
>> to just
>>>>> pull the disk out from the front while taking 3 5 1/4 bays in the case.
>>>
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