Hello all, I have a pile of old hard drives kept from previous upgrades and would like to be able to swap them in a drive bay in my current linux box.
1) The drive bays are of the 'Lazer" brand, whilst the box says they are hot swappable, I have some reservations about doing this, for fear of spiking the drive and damaging it or the others on the machine. I know that one has to be present in the machine for the bios to detect the fact that it is there, but there can be vast differences between the capacities of the drives, hence the drive parameters may not be recognised by the bios and thence the drive might not function. Does anyone have prior experience with this arrangement? 2) Assuming that it can be done how does one mount the drive and read from it, most likely they will be FAT16 or FAT32 - ex macroshit. 3) I still have a couple of old p166 boxes that I could put these drives in if they can't simply be plugged into the spare slot on my present linux box, can this be rigged up as a raid array for interface with my linux box, if so how? Thanking you in advance Nicholas Tomlin. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
