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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 have a |
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> > > drive available to plug in, assuming you are able to physically add a |
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> > > drive. |
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> > sata can hotplug. all ahci controlers can hotplug and all sata drives |
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> > can hotplug. If you insist on technology straight from the stone ages |
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> > that is your problem. |
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> I'd like to see you hotplug another SATA drive into this netbook, whereas |
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> 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 in New |
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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 option. |
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It's an old machine, but a critical one and serves DNS to our entire European |
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and US markets. Taking it down on a whim gets me fired. |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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