Darren New wrote:
> 
> I want to know why every one of our three different types of servers at 
> work (everything from a now-ancient PC to a cutting edge Dell Poweredge) 
> has hot-swap drives, and every one of them requires you to boot into the 
> BIOS at the console in order to change a drive. (Well, the Dells do. The 
> others just need a power cycle.) Why bother making it "hot-swap" if you 
> have to be physically present and out of the OS in order to swap it? 
> What's "hot" about that?

Nothing. Real hot-swap -HD's can be swapped just with taking the broken 
disk off and inserting a new one *without even touching the software*. 
Eg. HP Proliants support this. Actually, even couple of my personal 
machines at home support this :p.

> BTW, does anyone know how to get into the remote console configuration 
> on a Dell Poweredge 1950? :-)  At least then I wouldn't have to walk 
> someone non-technical through "importing the foreign RAID configuration" 
> when they put in a new disk for us.

Nope, but with Raritan Dominion you'd get full local console over the 
network (KVM-over-IP):
http://www.raritan.com/kvm/

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