On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 17:17 +0000, Ken Moffat wrote: > 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).
Actually, I think the kernel is more likely to be happy with it than the hardware is. Afterall, hotswapping disks is pretty routine on some of the platforms Linux is used on - heck, some of them consider *CPU* hotswapping normal. Simon.
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