Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 19:29:25 +0800 From: Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Hot plugging hard drives
Hi all! OK this has NOTHING to do with Librettos but we're all a smart bunch so I figured we needed some discussion ... Who here has experiences with hot plugging standard IDE hard drives (ATA66/100/133) on the standard motherboard IDE controller? What equipment/process was involved? I'm eager to be able to hot plug the hard drives on my new computer because I'm getting a little sick and tired of having to reboot every time I needed to transfer data (I use 20 gig hard drives as floppy disks), legend has it hot plugging is perfectly fine if you make sure the drive is unpowered when you do anything to the data cable, I didn't know that at one stage and managed to fry the IDE controller on my old computer. I've now got an IDE drive cradle where it is physically impossible to unplug/plug the data cable whilst the drive is powered (the drive's power line runs through the keylock). The cradle is NOT advertised as hot pluggable but a hot pluggable version by the same brand looks pretty much identical in all ways except it comes with a driver CD and is 4x the price. I'm wondering if anyone has any recommendations on what odds there are that I'll fry another IDE controller. If hot plugging is out of the question I'm considering 'cool plugging', put the computer into standby (where it powers down the hard drives) then do the plugging then take it out of standby. Anyone got any opinions? Experiences? Recommendations? Specifications? Cries of "You idiot!"? - Raymond --- /~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\ | | "Does fuzzy logic tickle?" | | ___ | "My HDD has no reverse. How do I backup?" | | /__/ +-------------------------------------------| | / \ a y b o t | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | HTTP://www.raybot.net | | ICQ: 31756092 | Need help? Visit #Windows98 on DALNet! | \~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~/ ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **************************************************************
