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On Friday 12 March 2004 11:25, James Wonnacott wrote:
I'm considering building a machine with a hot swappable drive bay (IDE) so I can use several drives for backup purposes. I'm told by someone who's tried this that he couldn't get Linux to see the changed drives without a reboot. He was using a promise card. Anyone out there got any experience/advice please before I go spending money.
I do a lot of sneakernet (walking data from one box to another ...) and, until very recently, I've done it with caddied IDE drives (starting with 75GB ones wich were the biggest I could get at the time, and now 250GB ones). I stuck with those mainly because I was doing a lot of NT stuff, and NT doesn't do PnP, so more interesting technologies were out - if it wasn't there at boot, it was never really going to be there...) Now I'm (mainly) using Linux I've discovered the joys of the USB 2.0 or FireWire drive. Substantially slower than IDE (not that I've measured it yet), but it's really great to be able to dismount a drive from one box, plug it into another, and mount it there immediately. jd -- John Daragon argv[0] limited john@xxxxxxxxxx Lambs Lawn Cottage, Staple Fitzpaine, Taunton TA3 5SL, UK (house) 01460 234537 (office) 01460 234068 (mobile) 07836 576127 (fax) 01460 234069 -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.