hi ya ron
i think its possible...
donno why "nobody does it... per se"
found some supposed "hot swap IDE drive bays"...
http://www.Linux-1U.net/Parts/#SCA
( drive bays are just above it )
i think you can tell the system that the drive is NOT ready
while the drive is offline... swap it out... do your magic...
and than put it back online ???
- tricky though.... if the new disk is clean
that it'd need to be re-sync'd before it can be
put back online and the cpu merrily keeps writing
new data to it
there is a hotswap ide drive project.. looking to do this right ??
http://www.linux-ide.org/
- why does one need hotswap ??? how often does an IDE disk die ???
- i'd worry more aobut power cables, ethernet cables being jiggled
- i'd worry about cpu and system fans dying
- i'd worry about power supply dying
- i'd worry about "users/developers"
Various reasons for disk failures...
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http://www.Linux-1U.net/Disks/Disk_Failure.gif
shamelessly stolen from ...
http://safersite.net/NSS15AFaultTolerantUsersStoragePowerandNetworks.htm
c ya
alvin
On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Ron Johnson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I know that there are removable cartridges that allow one to swap
> IDE disk drives when the PC is shut down, i.e. cold-swapping.
>
> Is there a way to hot-swap IDE drives like it it possible with
> SCSI drives? The 'net research I've done indicates that it is
> not possible, but I wonder if I have missed anything.
>
> TIA,
> Ron
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