Gotcha, when I said I did something like it, I meant I temporarily plugged a spare harddrive into the cpu (with power turned off, taking into consideration static charges and stuff), turned the power on, booted into linux, partitioned and formatted the drive (it was originally partitioned in ntfs) and transferred my files into it. :)
ciao! -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Andre M. V. Sent: 14. helmikuuta 2003 15:11 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [plug] partition/mount new hd <snip> Watch out, Have fried an EIDE hard drive by simulating hot swapping. Putting in the EIDE cable and power cable to the HDD while the computer is running. It will acutally work, but the HDD will eventually die from your shock treatment to it. Standard EIDE was never designed to be hot swappable, unless you have custom hardware to do hot swap on an EIDE HDD. regards, --- Andre M. Varon, SCSA http://andre.lasaltech.com _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fully Searchable Archives With Friendly Web Interface at http://marc.free.net.ph To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
