On Thu, 7 Feb 2002 10:26:17 +1100 CaT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 05:23:19PM -0600, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > > * Ron Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > > > 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. > > > > I've hot-swapped IDE drives before. It's certainly doable, although > > I wouldn't recommend it. Why do you want to hot-swap it, anyway? > > Cheaper then a zip disk I guess...
Not cheaper than a ZIP250, but - a 40GB disk is 160x the capacity - infinitely more durable - faster -- +------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://ronandheather.dhs.org:81 | | | ! "As I like to joke, I may have invented it, but Microsoft | | made it popular" David Bradley, regarding Ctrl-Alt-Del | +------------------------------------------------------------+
