Maybe, though, it sure seems that if hdparm can be made to rescan the drives, and there is a hot-swap-bay thing that fits in a 5.25, that that would be better. What about firewire, I know companies like Archos that make USB drives also make firewire ones. I know nothing about Linux firewire support. -Tom
On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Charles Curley wrote: > Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 14:01:19 -0700 > From: Charles Curley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Tom Oehser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: Stephen Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Scot Harkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [tomsrtbt] ssystem recovery strategy > > On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 02:05:16PM -0500, Tom Oehser wrote: > > > > Although I have always been against this, the price of a DLT or AIT or LTO > > tape cartridge that can hold 100 gigs is just about climbing over that of > > a hard drive. When you add in the cost of the tape drives that can do it, > > plus the better transfer speed and drastically better random access, I'm > > starting to consider reconsidering... ASSUMING that you really do install a > > hotswap and buy drives the way you would have bought tapes, it is hard to see > > the advantage of investing in DLT or AIT or LTO. > > > > Does anyone have a recommendation for IDE hotswap bays? > > > > What about getting the kernel to recognize the swaps? > > Would USB 2.0 be fast enough? Say, compared to tapes, remember. > > > -- > > Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign > Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards > and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email > http://w3.trib.com/~ccurley / \ No M$ Word docs in email > > Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB >
