Re: New IDE drive w/o rebooting?
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.
The current ATA standard has no provisions for hot-swappability, which
in essence is what you are after. The only way to add a Zip on the fly
is to use USB ;). Even SCSI controllers have to explicitly support that
function for it to work.
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