I need to be able to swap out the failed drive with another and have the raid rebuild itself automatically or maybe by running a simple script. Whats the advantage of sataesata drives over usbieee94 drives. Diskstation ds214play ultimate entertainment center synology ds214play is a ready media server specifically designed for users to enjoy maximized fun on their nas device. Floppy is not, ps2 is not, even some oooold boards you could risk damaging the motherboarddevices hot plugging ps2. The esata connector, usb, firewire are all designed for this. Jul 29, 2016 team viewer is the standard for remote support these days imho, used it for years and free for home use you will need at least two parts to use the teamviewer app or application the machines that you intend to support will need at least a small app to allow connection, though i tend to use the full app as it allows me to work from any system in a group to fix any other.
Nov 09, 2009 hotswapping drives in windows 7 by jon gjengset i have recently bought two external sata docking stations one internal i. First off, your bios needs to support ahci click here for more info on ahci, and your sata controller also needs to support it as well. Other controllers that are not silicon image based may not support hot swap. I would get an addin card the support hot swap so that if you disconnect or power off the unit, it will reconnect without a reboot. Since i thought this might somehow be the source of my troubles, i inserted a rocketraid 620 controller and connected the hot swap bay to one of its sata ports. Id like to set up my windows 2008 box r2, sp1 to take hot swap drives. I can hot remove a drive from the thermaltake blacx connected to the ich10 although i do not have permission to do so its grayedout on the. The names of this may differ, ranging from allow hotplug to esata. Under windows, im able to hotplug any ol hard drive using my thermaltake esata usb docking station. Intel controller hub ich, jmicron jmb363 if silicon image controller is used, the driver will spindown the drive upon device removable. However, drives with older sata connections will not support plug and play, instead youll need to shutdown the pc and swap the drive and power the pc back up. This allows users to add and remove devices, such as hard drives and optical drives, without restarting the computer. I have several issues involving usb3 ports, sleepwake, bluetooth, and most importantly, sataesata connections. I tried installing the old windows 7 drivers provided by asus and.
How to enable hot swap for esata on intel ich10r sataide. Features friendly user interface equivalent to the safely remove hardware icon in the notification area. How to enable hot swap for esata on intel ich10r sata. Access control list acl support, advanced data streaming ads, email alert, ftp server, ipv6 support, mysql server, sms alert, ssh support. I can boot up with a hard drive installed and it appears in my device list. I think i just found out the hard way that not all motherboards support hot swap with sata. I enabled ahci for the sata port that the dock built into the case is connected to. Expand the storage capabilities of a small form factorembedded system or laptop, with external drives. I tried this with a factory new hard disk with the same effect. When i insert a hotswappable sata drive, the drive does not show up after running ls devsdif i reboot the server, then after it comes back up the drive appears.
How do i make linux recognize a new sata devsda drive i hot. Components which have such functionality are said to be hotswappable or hotpluggable. Windows 10 does not detect a hotswap hard drive when. I have hot swap working on my existing windows 2003 r2 machine, but backup that comes with it sucks, and i have to do a lot of manual operations to get the drive mounted, then back up to it manually, then unmount and pull the drive, so its a pain. Then i installed the gigabytejmicron sataraid controller drivers. Frequently asked questions faqs about the esata port on a dell. Download the latest lts version of ubuntu, for desktop pcs and laptops. As soon as i plug in the esata cable, it spins up the drive and is recognized.
The hot swappable feature is only available if the motherboard supports the esata hot swapable functionality. I can hotswap to any of the ports on the adaptec array controller without problems im notified that a drive has failed and the array begins to rebuild automatically when a drive is replaced. This has not happened yet, but when it does, i plan not to hot swap the recovery process, in hopes to avoid the usb rescan issue. Lsi sas 1068 has hotswap support according to the description, but im not sure, and i cant poweroff the system for migration or check in bios.
The hotswappable feature is only available if the motherboard supports the esata hotswapable functionality. Can i hot swap a external hard drive using a sata cable. May 25, 2014 i think i just found out the hard way that not all motherboards support hot swap with sata. Add a 5bay hotswap enclosure to a server or workstation computer, for a removable backup solution. I have several issues involving usb3 ports, sleepwake, bluetooth, and most importantly, sata esata connections. When i put a drive in and type dmesg i get nothing. Thanks for the answers to look more into the sata controller. A good quality hot swap drive caddy will also make things a lot easier. I dont have problems with current output, ive been just hoping that there is something within the system to f. If the esata ports are on a seperate controller to your system drive you can safely go into the bios and enable ahci for just those and windows should redect the controller and install new drivers and thats it, hot swap should work.
Windows 7 doesnt like esata hot swap anandtech forums. I installed a gigabyte b75md3h motherboard for a server which has a 4 bay hot swap enclosure. Im wondering if the builtin ubuntu software raid can handle this, particularly the hotswap part. I found a way to trick the system into hot plugging. To run ahci you have to set it to ahci in the bios when load windows however there is a registery hack than allows you to change it to ahci and then reboot, enter the bios and set it to achi. Hotswapping drives in windows 7 by jon gjengset i have recently bought two external sata docking stations one internal i. I can insert the hard drive after boot up and it appears in my device list. Hot swapping is the replacement or addition of components to a computer system without stopping, shutting down, or rebooting the system. Most people would simply nuke and pave the os drive and reinstall. My computer related threads teamviewer 11 not working with windows 10 need help in software and apps. Hi just having a read of this post and the whole hot swapping issue. Dec 05, 2008 no hot swap esata in mac, units have to be turned on at boot and have to be swapped on shut down. Then after installing the new disk the new disk didnt appear as devsdc but rather as.
Lts stands for longterm support which means five years, until april 2025, of free security and maintenance updates, guaranteed. It has been developed on and for a dell latitude c600, but does not rely on any specific properties of that machine. One advantage that sata added over previous connection standards is the ability to hot swap devices. Does sata hot swap not work on all motherboards these days. By default, the command line utility guides you through the hotswapping process interactively. Quote if you want to change ide to ahci without reinstall windows os, you need to change the regedit just info on switching ide ahci to resolve this issue yourself, enable the ahci driver in the registry before you change the sata mode of the boot drive. As im running slackware64current with alienbobs kde 4. Bytecc model btpsapa pci to sata ide card esata add. In perhaps a dozen cases, weve been forced to reboot servers because hot swap hasnt just worked. Is it possible to plugremove sata drives while the system is running.
When i insert a hot swappable sata drive, the drive does not show up after running ls devsd if i reboot the server, then after it comes back up the drive appears. I may have presumed that esata ii support was the difference. I believe the sata ports must be hotswap not just hotplugable for this to work. Sata hot plugging needs to be allowed with a setting in some bioses. Apr 19, 20 i tried this with a factory new hard disk with the same effect. Im afraid to just connect a disk in case it damages the controller or the disk itself, so i need a way to check if hotplughotswap is activated in the system. I enabled the generic ms ahci driver as per the kb and then rebooted. Unfortunately, under ubuntu it doesnt spin up at all. As long as no data is being written at the time, take the data cable out, followed by the power cable a few seconds later.
Feb 24, 2011 hot swapping sata disks is only possible with ahci compliant controllers, otherwise you must powerdown and cold swap. Jun, 2017 enable sata hot swap by martin brinkmann on april 05, 2009 in software last update. Keep in mind the esata is simply sata, nothing more. Mar 22, 2015 esata is by far the most reliable in a hot swap situation. If your sata controller chipset supports hotswap then it should just work. Ds214play comes with dual core cpu and 1gb ram, aligning it with topclass consumer nas today, delivering an average 111mbsec reading and 101mbsec writing speed under raid 1. A top slotloading design and unique drive ejection mechanism provides quick and easy access to the data without having to install drives into an enclosure or tray. Extract the downloaded file and run hotswapexe, the icon will. I can hotswap a drive in my ich10r controller with no problems. It also ensures that all data are written and flushed to the disk before the device to be hot swapped, so you can use sata esata drive as a removable device much alike usbieee94 drive. No hot swap esata in mac, units have to be turned on at boot and have to be swapped on shut down. I did enable ahci and just noticed another screen during boot up jmicron controller or something like that. Linux san disk managment via dmmultipathfebruary 2, 2009in linux. The hot swap bay was connected to the esata port of my mainboard.
Hot plugging drives under win2000xp internet archive provided by silicon image it does the same thing as you can remove device from device manager but it provides much friendly user interface as you remove the removable device from the safely remove hardware icon in the notification area. One sata, one esata and one ide port is a great combination for adding extra drives to an older computer that would most likely not be able to take advantage of the higher transfer rates of newer sata ii or sata iii drives. However i do not put that as a con because no one should be looking for a new sata ii interface addon card that uses the pci bus interface. I found it annoying to have to restart the whole computer at every turn, especially when sata is. A good quality hotswap drive caddy will also make things a lot easier. Sata is also known as sata on the go by asus and power over esata by msi. Unfortunately, hotswapping an esata drive is a bit more complicated than hot swapping a. Teamviewer is safe as long you download it from the official site and not 3rd party sites as they can modified the installer and install a hidden keylogger onto your system. Getting ubuntu to recogize my esata drive super user. Most of the modern onboard intel sata controllers are ahci compatible, although it needs to be supported in the bios of the machine.
If your sata controller chipset supports hot swap then it should just work. Ive included the lspci output for the problematic system above hostname. Im planning to install my first linux server on bare metal, with the purpose to. Esata supports hot plug just like usb but is that all. As an example, drives on the 3ware 9650 controller twa driver are hotswappable. See also mounting of esata drive and especially the last entry. Aug 14, 2015 everything works fine exept that i can no longer hot swap hhds while running windows 10. Sep 10, 2009 i can hot swap a drive in my ich10r controller with no problems. Simiarly, those little usb headers on the motherboard, are probably not a good idea to hot swap. Unfortunately, hotswapping an esata drive is a bit more complicated than hot swapping a usb drive. Slim expresscard 1x esata port with jmb360 chipset.
Mar 07, 2012 unfortunately, hot swapping an esata drive is a bit more complicated than hot swapping a usb drive. I hope the process of offlining the failed drives through the raid array software first, powering off the host computer and the icy dock enclosure, and the physically replacing the failed drives. If your sata controller supports hot swap, it should just worktm. Everything works fine exept that i can no longer hot swap hhds while running windows 10. The program makes sure that the drive you want to swap is not in use and spins down the drive so it can be safely removed. An example hotswap statement from a sata controller manufacturer, addonics. Secondly your os, needs to specifically support hot plug, and in the case of windows 7, it wont boot if you change to ahci after the os has been installed. Oct 06, 2010 easily hot swap sata hard drives with hotswap.
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