Re: OT: Hot-swappable IDE drives
On Thu, 7 Feb 2002 10:26:17 +1100 CaT <cat@zip.com.au> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 05:23:19PM -0600, Dimitri Maziuk wrote:
> > * Ron Johnson (ron.l.johnson@cox.net) spake thusly:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I know that there are removable cartridges that allow one to swap
> > > IDE disk drives when the PC is shut down, i.e. cold-swapping.
> > >
> > > Is there a way to hot-swap IDE drives like it it possible with
> > > SCSI drives? The 'net research I've done indicates that it is
> > > not possible, but I wonder if I have missed anything.
> >
> > I've hot-swapped IDE drives before. It's certainly doable, although
> > I wouldn't recommend it. Why do you want to hot-swap it, anyway?
>
> Cheaper then a zip disk I guess...
Not cheaper than a ZIP250, but
- a 40GB disk is 160x the capacity
- infinitely more durable
- faster
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