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