From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1SK0yr-0007Zt-5C for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 17 Apr 2012 05:29:33 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id ED653E073B; Tue, 17 Apr 2012 05:29:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtpq4.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net (smtpq4.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net [212.54.34.167]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4552E072D for ; Tue, 17 Apr 2012 05:27:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [212.54.34.137] (helo=smtp6.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net) by smtpq4.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SK0wz-0000ub-54 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 17 Apr 2012 07:27:37 +0200 Received: from 5ed027d6.cm-7-1a.dynamic.ziggo.nl ([94.208.39.214] helo=data.antarean.org) by smtp6.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SK0wx-0004fq-T4 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 17 Apr 2012 07:27:37 +0200 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by data.antarean.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F82B2A8F for ; Tue, 17 Apr 2012 07:28:06 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at antarean.org Received: from data.antarean.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (data.antarean.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 4JxL1QQfweRS for ; Tue, 17 Apr 2012 07:28:04 +0200 (CEST) Received: from www.antarean.org (net.antarean.org [10.10.11.5]) by data.antarean.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DEC916E8 for ; Tue, 17 Apr 2012 07:28:04 +0200 (CEST) Received: from 62.132.204.72 (SquirrelMail authenticated user joost) by www.antarean.org with HTTP; Tue, 17 Apr 2012 07:28:04 +0200 Message-ID: <9397434ebc5cd3860880a947b5f821ba.squirrel@www.antarean.org> In-Reply-To: <4F8C22F5.90103@gmail.com> References: <20120414044030.GA14981@pacific.net.au> <4F895221.5060109@gmail.com> <20120414191157.256526b9@gentoo-main.kwkh-home> <4F8964F4.5090205@gmail.com> <4F898985.4000406@binarywings.net> <09f2d3b4e4afd5ed85ecd45c2304676f.squirrel@www.antarean.org> <4F8C22F5.90103@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2012 07:28:04 +0200 Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] About ready to move /usr, /var and /home to LVM. From: "J. Roeleveld" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.21 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Ziggo-spambar: / X-Ziggo-spamscore: -0.9 X-Ziggo-spamreport: BAYES_00=-1.9,KHOP_DYNAMIC=0.001,RDNS_DYNAMIC=0.982,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.01 X-Ziggo-Spam-Status: No X-Spam-Status: No X-Spam-Flag: No X-Archives-Salt: 13ec3344-580c-4c51-a52b-6a44b44ce64e X-Archives-Hash: 91c437b6132a24f026b173db6bc5ccdb On Mon, April 16, 2012 3:47 pm, Dale wrote: > J. Roeleveld wrote: >> >> On Sat, April 14, 2012 4:28 pm, Florian Philipp wrote: >> >> >> >>> As we are out of rational ideas, have you tried unplugging the old >>> disk? >>> You don't need it for booting at the moment, right? AS SATA is >>> hot-plugin capable, you can re-insert it later. >> >> Be careful here, not all SATA-controllers/ports on mainboards are >> hotplug >> capable. I have a mainboard that becomes really unstable when I try to >> hot(un)plug a harddisk. >> It runs perfectly fine as long as I switch the computer off before >> swapping harddrives. > > According to the manual, mine is. Given my luck, I don't want to try > it. ;-) If the manual says it is, then probably it will be. I have 2 mainboards I tried it with that don't mention either way for hotswap in the manuals. One gets unstable, the other works perfectly. The last mainboard I bought actually has an option in the BIOS where I ca= n specify per SATA-port which are to support hotswap or not ;) -- Joost