Hi all,
To make a long story short, I've got a custom-built server running an Adaptec 5805 SATA RAID controller with directly attached WD RE4 drives. There is no backplane.
I was able to disconnect a failed/missing drive that wasn't showing up in Adaptec Storage Manager (Windows running), and then I rescanned on the controller and confirmed that everything was alright.
When I reconnected the drive (power first, then data), first Storage Manager declared the logical volume to be "failed". . . then the server itself rebooted suddenly (may have been a BSOD, I wasn't able to see the console from where I was).
Upon rebooting, everything was alright. The (RAID 1) array began to rebuild. But. . . since I have a vague recollection of hot-swapping causing trouble years ago on the same server when I was testing it prior to deployment. . . I have to ask. . .
Should this work without a backplane? Should I be able to plug and unplug drives that are directly attached on a RAID controller that supports hot swapping?
--H
To make a long story short, I've got a custom-built server running an Adaptec 5805 SATA RAID controller with directly attached WD RE4 drives. There is no backplane.
I was able to disconnect a failed/missing drive that wasn't showing up in Adaptec Storage Manager (Windows running), and then I rescanned on the controller and confirmed that everything was alright.
When I reconnected the drive (power first, then data), first Storage Manager declared the logical volume to be "failed". . . then the server itself rebooted suddenly (may have been a BSOD, I wasn't able to see the console from where I was).
Upon rebooting, everything was alright. The (RAID 1) array began to rebuild. But. . . since I have a vague recollection of hot-swapping causing trouble years ago on the same server when I was testing it prior to deployment. . . I have to ask. . .
Should this work without a backplane? Should I be able to plug and unplug drives that are directly attached on a RAID controller that supports hot swapping?
--H