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

[Claus]

Thanks for setting me straight.  I knew about the USB/Firewire options 
but was wondering if just plugging it in and out of the IDE cable would 
have been acceptable.  I'll try to stay away from doing that.

Thanks,
   Claus

On 1/7/2005 10:30 AM, Daniel Wittenberg wrote:
> 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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