On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, Brandin Creech wrote:
. I've also used the "deregester IDE channel" hdparm option before
and was able to unplug and swap out an IDE hard disk while the system was
running. Very cool (and also listed as "dangerous"). Yes, it is dangerous,
but I found it very instructive. If you like to live dangerously, maybe try
hotswapping your IDE hard disk too (:.
Sounds more like 'insane' than 'dangerous' - ignoring possible kernel
issues (it really doesn't expect normal IDE drives to go away, some
kernels might accept it, others might not), there is the possibility of
trashing the chips in the interface (either on the disk, or on your
controller).
Ken
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