Re: (Semi)hot swap IDE

From: Jez Hancock (jez.hancock_at_munk.nu)
Date: 11/24/03

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    On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 02:26:39PM +0200, Toomas Aas wrote:
    > Hi!
    >
    > > Just for the record I have the kind of setup you're talking
    > > about - I successfully 'hot swapped' a 40Gb IDE disk using a hdd
    > > caddy tray but there are caveats (mostly highlighted above) - using the
    > > term 'hot swap' loosely here because it just doesn't feel too clever
    > > doing it :P
    > >
    > > I found the following:
    > >
    > > - I could remove/reinsert the device only if it was originally in the machine on
    > > boot - this is fairly obvious I suppose. Otherwise the device just
    > > doesn't show up.
    >
    > Just to make it clear for myself - did you try running 'atacontrol
    > attach <channel>' after attaching the drive that wasn't attached at
    > boot time and it still didn't show up?
    No, this might have helped perhaps :) Did you try this with success?

    I no longer use this technique as it goes since I added a large disk a
    while back and as such have no need now for caddy swapping. 

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