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Date:      Sat, 17 Feb 2001 18:20:20 -0800 (PST)
From:      Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@aciri.org>
To:        keichii@peorth.iteration.net
Cc:        rizzo@aciri.org, imp@harmony.village.org, wkb@freebie.demon.nl, FreeBSD-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, sos@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: hotplug ata device?
Message-ID:  <200102180220.f1I2KKR21592@iguana.aciri.org>
In-Reply-To: <20010217200223.B88106@peorth.iteration.net> from "Michael C . Wu" at "Feb 17, 2001  8: 2:24 pm"

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> | > NO.  These cards are not hot pluggable.  I've blown out two IDE
> | > Controllers hot plugging them.  DO NOT TRY TO HOTPLUG THEM OR YOU WILL
> | > BE SORRY.
...
> | > I hate to shout like that, but after the second IDE controller fried,
> | > I got real conservative.
...
> And Warner uses these TAPR CompactFlash/IDE cards..:)
> I have fried my little Pentium 100's IDE controller with it too...

i actually wonder, aren't there removable disk frames which support
hot swap (by turning off power with the keylock, or the like) ?

Plus, it is actually curious that you can fry the IDE controller,
the simplest ones used to be just a couple of '245 and an
address decoder...

	cheers
	luigi

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