A brief search on Google turned up heaps for "hot swap ide linux" for example:
http://linux.rice.edu/pipermail/rlug-discuss/2001-March/001543.html
"info that I was reading on kernel traffic was that IDE wasn't designed for this and you could get hardware damage if you tried to hotswap IDE, and thus there was no support *ever* planned for this."
This one has a good description of the IDE bus and how it works - apparently this guy thinks there ARE some RAID cards that allow proper hot-swapping...
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=_ib14.301%24f82.889%40client
I have tried removable USB drives (Dick Smith sells the caddies for about $160 which take any 3.5" IDE drive), but had major problems with USB driver support (USB2 led to consistent crashes, USB1.1 was flakey and so slow as to be unusable) in the Mandrake 2.4.21 kernel I was using, although many people with different motherboards report that their USB drives work fine with USB2. The 2.4.22 kernel supplied with Mandrake 9.2 seems to work fine so far. And as Jim Cheetham said, the 2.6 kernel apparently sports a fully rewritten USB layer.
Cheers,
Dave
CF wrote:
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)
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