Re: [ProgSoc] hotswapping IDE drives

[Christian Kent <whophd@nospam.progsoc.uts.edu.au>]

On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, vik wrote:

> 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?

I've tried it off my motherboard IDE with my non-boot drive, after
unmounting the device etc, and I successfully plugged in the new one but I
couldn't get it to mount.  Oh well, I thought, I'll have to restart OSX.

With your OS YMMV.

Anyway then I touched something wrong and the machine went catatonic (the
sound buffer went into a loop, everything froze).  All was well after a
reset.

(This message brought to you in the interests of Risk Avoision(tm)).

CK.


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