Re: New IDE drive w/o rebooting?
I'm assuming the machine is a PC. Usually you can't add IDE disks
without rebooting, also I'm not sure it's a good idea to mess with the
cables while the power is on. IDE disks are identified by the BIOS at
boot time.
Zip IDE disks are an exception : the BIOS does nothing to support
them. As far as the BIOS is concerned, ZIP drives don't exist. (See
my post in the archives relating how I got my Linux HD to work).
You may be able to get away with it with a zip drive, but if the power
destroys it, I am not liable. ;-)
It shouldn't be so bad to reboot the machine, it should only take a
couple of minutes.
HTH,
-D
On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 11:52:32AM -0800, mattyt@oz.net wrote:
> Hi, all,
>
> Is this possible? I need to install an IDE Zip 250 drive in the server here at
> work to make available on the LAN. I seem to recall that you can 'refresh' the
> SCSI bus to add drives without rebooting.
>
> Is this possible (or even recommended) with an internal IDE drive?
>
> TIA :)
>
> Matthew Thompson http://mattyt.net
> mattyt@oz.net http://www.oz.net/~mattyt
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