[Techtalk] Hot swap drive?

[Conor Daly]

On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 08:09:57AM -0400 or thereabouts, Elwing wrote:
> Make sure that the mobile rack handles all electrical "shocks" to the 
> system.  That's the big issue with hot swappable IDE drives.  They give 
> a surge of electricity back to the system (take out) or they take it 
> (plug in).  *most* mobile drive bays handle this for you, but double 
> check that it says something about "makes a regular IDE drive hot swappable"

No, this is a plain "don't have to open the case" drive bay.  No surge
handling or anything.  It will work if I power down before plug/unplug.

Someone at work has been having big corruption problems with a USB2 HDD and
Suse8.2 but that could be down to the particular drive since they're using
about 5 or 6 of these drives and the others seem OK.
 
Conor
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