Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: IDE and hot-swap disk caddies | Date | Thu, 28 Mar 2002 09:33:48 +0000 (GMT) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> -some very cheap IDE swap bays have a mechanical interlock > with the power switch. Your turn the key, and the drive shuts > off, before you can pull it out. power sequencing solved? don't
No - you also have to isolate the IDE bus
> -PCMCIA has electrical hot swap support...?
Yes - but PCMCIA is effectively hot swap ISA bus, the controller is on the pcmcia card - different ball game - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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