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From: Olivier Nicole <on@cs.ait.ac.th>
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Subject: Re: Removing removable ATA hard drives
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Hi, 

> I'm reluctant to experiment any more than I have done: the server
> the drive bay has been fitted to is our live fileserver, with 120GB
> of user data on two drives on the other ATA channel.

I know I would take time to install the drive bay in a test machine,
with an old disk and play with it until I am 100% confident on the way
to mount and dismount your disk... Whatever others can say.

Olivier