Re: OT: Hot-swappable IDE drives
On Wed, 6 Feb 2002 17:23:19 -0600 Dimitri Maziuk <dmaziuk@yola.bmrb.wisc.edu> 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?
Data backup for my 60GB disk drive. The only other technology
that I know of to protect the data would be a high-end tape drive,
like a DLT. However, they cost 5x more then my computer...
Why don't you recommend it?
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