On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 08:21, Olof Bjarnason wrote: > Anyway, since linux *can* do this, and Mandrake specifically > announces itself as being user-friendly etc., it should, don't you > agree?
Yes. A lot of IDE drives these days (especially SATA, but not limited to) are hot-swappable in practice if not in theory. A friend of mine hot-swaps IDE drives regularly under WinXP and it seems to cope with it very well most of the time. Reading the whats-new-in-2.6 docco (at http://www.kniggit.net/wwol26.html), it seems that the hooks to do all of this on the fly exist in it. I suspect that a lot if not all of this functionality has already been backported into the 2.4 derivative used by Mandrake, so we should be able to do not only what Olof is suggesting, but on the fly. Cheers; Leon
