Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 26 Mar 2003 13:11:19 -0500 (EST) | From | Bill Davidsen <> | Subject | Re: hdparm and removable IDE? |
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On 26 Mar 2003, Alan Cox wrote:
> IDE hotswap at drive level is not supported by Linux. It might work ok. > Providing you shut the drive down fully and flush the cache before you > unregister/unplug and replug before registering the new interface
There was a bunch of discussion of this, possibly on this list, and I believe that the whole cable has to be unregistered or some such. I've done it with only one drive on a cable, and it seemed to work. On the other hand I was only playing.
I've seen some note regarding using ide-floppy for the whole drive instead of the media, but I have never had the urge to try that.
WARNING: removable and hot swapable bays are not the same, had a client prove that to herself the hard way.
-- bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> CTO, TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.
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