Re: hotplugging ide harddrive

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 06/04/07 10:28, Andrew J. Barr wrote:
> On Mon, 04 Jun 2007 09:55:05 -0500
> Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
>
> > You can plug a raw drive directly into a running system?  I don't 
> > believe you.  
>
> Some Thinkpads, some laptops, can do this.
>
> > As Douglas says, IDE doesn't support hot-swapping.
>
> It wasn't designed that way, no, but some laptop vendors have figured
> out ways to support it, and AFAIK Linux *does* support these methods.
> If I'm not mistaken, ACPI even is a cross-vendor generic method of
> this. Look at the documentation of hdparm, and in the case of Thinkpads
> there was a kernel module called lt_hotswap, although I think that's
> now superseded by thinkpad_acpi and/or generic ACPI bay support.

With any 2.5" drive, or only drives certified by Lenovo?

Besides, laptops only have 1 hard drive, no?

> > > How to do with debian ? Any idea ?
> > With USB or Firewire enclosures.  Piece of cake.


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