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Simon Williams wrote: > I was thinking of doing it using USB, but I've only got USB 1, which is > >far too slow. I don't have any free PCI slots either. > >I'm getting the impression that removable IDE hdd caddies are somewhat >useless- you have to power off the system before doing anything with it? >I guess IDE really wasn't designed for this anyway. > They are useless from the hot-plug point-of-view, yes. We use them all the time at College in our training room so we can have a set of disks configured for "Office courses" and another set that we use for "other courses" (which are usually blanked/imaged accordingly). Grant. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html