[plug] Moving Running System to new HDD

Timothy White weirdit at gmail.com
Thu Dec 7 00:31:56 WST 2006


On 12/6/06, Cameron Patrick <cameron at patrick.wattle.id.au> wrote:

>
> Incidentally, for those who are assuming that hotswap HDDs are exotic
> and not seen in consumer hardware: just about every SATA controller in
> existence supports hotswap, and Linux SATA hotswap is in the 'justworks'
> category these days (at least with a recent-ish kernel; 2.6.15 seems to
> work for me).

I beg to differ. I am almost certain a recent computer I worked on,
reading the motherboard manual, it explicitly said hotswapping SATA
was not supported.

But from what I've read, it should be easy under Linux... Question is,
what is the command sequence?

Thanks

Tim
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