Followup to: <3DE3CC8D.2080104@mvista.com> By author: Steven Dake <sdake@mvista.com> In newsgroup: linux.dev.raid > > IDE was not designed to hotswap. The trays are not "hot swappable" in > that they can only be swapped while the system is off. > There are IDE cards which can tristate -- effectively disconnect -- their outputs. Some of them can even control the power to the drive. Such drives are safe to hotswap, if they have been disconnected before removing them. This requires driver support, however, and I'm not sure if Linux has that. -hpa -- <hpa@transmeta.com> at work, <hpa@zytor.com> in private! "Unix gives you enough rope to shoot yourself in the foot." http://www.zytor.com/~hpa/puzzle.txt <amsp@zytor.com> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
