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Hotswap SATA drives under Linux with scsisadd.


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Now kids, don't try this at home., and DEFINITELY not on an unRAID array drive.

 

But if you have a need to hotswap a SATA drive on a running Linux system (as I often do), this utility works:

 

  http://llg.cubic.org/tools/scsiadd-1.97.tar.gz

 

When I make drive images, it takes a lot longer over USB/FW, then native SATA.... so when I have to make a lot, it is faster (but still a PITA) to shutdown, swap SATA drives, and reboot, for each image I have to make.

 

I just finished a series of tests, comparing md5 hashes for entire drives, and it worked flawlessly.

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