In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Luigi Rizzo writes:
: i actually wonder, aren't there removable disk frames which support
: hot swap (by turning off power with the keylock, or the like) ?
I've not seen any, but I suppose they exist. The TAPR ones, however,
definitely are not those beasts. they are simple and don't support
hotswap.
: Plus, it is actually curious that you can fry the IDE controller,
: the simplest ones used to be just a couple of '245 and an
: address decoder...
I think that the main problem is lack of good grounding causing large
transients when the card is removed. But I could be wrong about
that. Each time I fried one it was definitely a remove + insert
sequence.
Warner
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