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Neil Stone wrote: > Simon Williams wrote: >> Hi all. >> I'm upgrading my server soon and will probably be getting a removable >> hard disk bay. I'm wondering if anyone knows anything about hotswapping >> these (it'll be IDE). >> Google gives some mention of it on the kernel mailing list, but only for >> 2.4 and 2.5, and it doesn't say whether it's stable or how to get it >> working. >> Does it work on 2.6? >> Is it stable? >> What about the BIOS' hard disk management? >> Can I take a drive out and put a different one in? >> Any suggestions? >> >> (I'm surprised I couldn't work this out myself- I've done a lot with the >> ultrabay on my thinkpad(s)). > > well first off the drives would need to be hot plugable, also the drive > bays... the bios should know how to do this too... it's not as simple as > you may think.. > > > however, doing this on usb.. thats a different matter.. its easy.. 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. -- 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