On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 20:11, Jim Cheetham wrote: > On Dec 2, 2003, at 6:15 PM, chris bayley wrote: > >> On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 05:00:30PM +1300, Jim Cheetham wrote: > >>> I've been playing with an IDE to USB2 unit, and trying to store about > >>> 50+Gb onto it, at reasonable speeds. > > > > What about plain old IDE - in hot swap cradles ? > > > The cradles are fine, but I'm not confident about introducing an IDE > drive while the machine is powered up. I suppose if that worked it'd be > fine :-) and in fact in the short term that's the route I'm going to > use - although I'll probably power down the server while > removing/inserting the drive.
I've got a couple spare that the original poster can have... they came from the Carich auction. You can't hot swap IDE unless your controller supports it, OR you have IDE as a module that can be unloaded (ie, your root drive is other than IDE) -- C. Falconer
