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On Saturday 03 April 2010 09:55:39 Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> On Friday 02 April 2010 23:28:26 Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> > On Fri, 2 Apr 2010 21:50:09 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: |
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> > > > Assuming your controller supports hotplugging, assuming you |
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> > > > have a drive available to plug in, assuming you are able to |
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> > > > physically add a drive. |
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> > > sata can hotplug. all ahci controlers can hotplug and all sata |
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> > > drives can hotplug. If you insist on technology straight from |
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> > > the stone ages that is your problem. |
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> > I'd like to see you hotplug another SATA drive into this netbook, |
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> > whereas I can add another volume in seconds. |
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> I'd like to see him add another SATA drive to my nameservers sitting |
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> in New York or the vmhost in Nairobi. I'm in Johannesburg. |
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> Taking down that NewYork nameserver on a whim to add disks is not an |
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> option. It's an old machine, but a critical one and serves DNS to |
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> our entire European and US markets. Taking it down on a whim gets me |
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> fired. |
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Reminds me of that old chestnut, "all generalisations are false". |
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Rgds |
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Peter. |
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