[Cialug] Poor man's hot-swappable hard drive

[Daniel Wittenberg]

IDE like that wasn't ment to be hot-swappable, so you could definitely
fry something.  You might get lucky and have it work, maybe not.  Your
OS would also have to know how to rescan for IDE changes, which usually
only happens with SCSI/FW/USB.  I think they do make hot-swap IDE disk
carriers, and obviously scsi/firewire work as well.  I would suggest
just buying an external USB or firewire drive and using that instead.

Dan

On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 10:16 -0600, Claus wrote:
> Is it possible to have the power cable and IDE cable hang out of the 
> computer case and plug in a HD as needed while the computer is running?
> 
> I'm mostly concerned if hardware could be damaged or data be corrupted.
> 
> Basically this would be to backup data onto a hard drive that is then 
> stored somewhere else.  The HD would be mounted to a *BDS system as 
> needed without having to reboot that system.
> 
>    Claus
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