Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2001 16:25:32 -0800 From: Jason Liao <maillist@Gallantry.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hot swap IDE device? Message-ID: <3AA039FC.FBAC5611@Gallantry.com> References: <20010302231650.65183.qmail@web12508.mail.yahoo.com>
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The company I work for makes a 1U rackmount machine. It has a RAID-1 mirrored disk subsystem. The machine takes two IDE hard disks, and the RAID-1 board makes them appear as a single SCSI drive to the CPU. The IDE disks are hot swapable. (Sorry for the commercial, but if you need more details, see http://www.gallantry.com/Doc/PDF/GallantRACK-1U.pdf ) Jason Tyler McGeorge wrote: > > I've actually seen a working IDE hot swap on a Windows > machine. It is possible, but, it does require the hot > swap kit and I believe they warn against doing it on a > regular basis to avoid hard disk damage. You might > check the manual for the hot swap kit, it may mount as > a drive image or something bizarre. > > Best of luck, > Ty To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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