re: Hot Swap Hard Drives. Thursday, May 1, 2003 at 10:05 am Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Fliggy (90 messages posted) it has no problems if you use the hot swap caddies -which i would highly recommend, as they offer some protection and cooling- but it will crash if you take one out without shuting down and powereing off the system. the reason it (usually) works with *nix, is because windows relies on the bios info where as most *nix kernals, when the bios tells them what hardware is present, says something along the lines on 'thats nice' and ignoors it. On Thursday, May 1, 2003 at 6:49 am, jonathon wrote: >i read somewhere today that windows me, 2000, and xp, dont support the hot swap caddies >, and your pc will crash if you run them... > > Written in response to: re: Hot Swap Hard Drives. (JONATHON: Thursday, May 1, 2003 at 6:49 am) Responses to this message: re: Hot Swap Hard Drives. (SuSEQ: Monday, May 5, 2003 at 12:58 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] Hot Swap Hard Drives. (Fliggy: Mon, Mar 3, 2003, 10:21 am) re: Hot Swap Hard Drives. (JONATHON: Wed, Apr 30, 2003, 1:44 pm) re: Hot Swap Hard Drives. (Fliggy: Thu, May 1, 2003, 10:04 am) re: Hot Swap Hard Drives. (JONATHON: Thu, May 1, 2003, 6:49 am) re: Hot Swap Hard Drives. (Fliggy: Thu, May 1, 2003, 10:05 am) re: Hot Swap Hard Drives. (SuSEQ: Mon, May 5, 2003, 12:58 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 2000 Discussion Forum