Re: [ProgSoc] hotswapping IDE drives

[Michael Lamont <lamont@nospam.telegnosis.com.au>]

Generally speaking not if you want your puter to keep functioning.

You can buy caddies that let you hot swap ide drives, but these 
require their own drivers and take some time to unmount the drive.

Essentially the caddy makes sure all the ground pins get connected first.

Newer IDE standards ie: serial ATA allows hot swapping.

If you have the caddy then do you also have the driver software, coz 
without it, its just a normal removable hard drive.

vik wrote:
> hey,
> 
> is one allowed to hot-swap IDE drives? coz I got one of those removable 
> drive bay thingies, which is clearly marked HOTSWAP/66 , suggesting it 
> is designed for hot-swapping. The mechanism also appears to ensure all 
> pins make/break contact at the same time.
> 
> However, the controller is just an old run-of-the-mill motherboard based 
> non-RAID controller. supposing the drive was unmounted, would anything 
> blow up if it was swapped while the 'puter was running?
> 
> chow
> 
> vik
> 
> 
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