On Wed, 28 May 2003, Jeremy Petzold wrote: > hotswaping IDEs require hardware level ability as well as kernel level > abilities. X86 lacks all core hardware hotswapability...periferal hardware is > fine but swaping things like CPUs, Memory, harddrives, etc is impossable on > X86.
Awhile back, I was looking into IDE RAID systems, and I remember a RAID5
hardware system that claimed to support hotswapping RAID drives.
Unfortunately, the price was a tad high, and I never bought it.
From the technical aspects of IDE, I see no reason why hardware cannot
RAID IDE drives, power down any faulty drives, power up any replacement
drives and mirror the data, all well telling the BIOS/OS that there is
only one drive.
(Now, if that's a good idea, OTOH...)
~ Jesse Meyer
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