On Wed, 2003-12-03 at 09:26, CF wrote: > On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 20:11, Jim Cheetham wrote: > > 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.
Thanks for the offer - however the server in question is a commercial one, so I won't take you up on that. Other CLUG members might benefit more :-) > 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) That sounds slightly tempting, but scary - I doubt that the ide subsystem has been well tested as a module, and unloading it might lead to instability. In any case, I don't have a non-IDE root drive ... in theory I suppose you could use initrd to copy a root onto another ramdisk ... that would be a challenge! -jim
