re: Hot Swap Hard Drives.
Monday, May 5, 2003 at 12:58 pm
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by SuSEQ
(1 messages posted)
What a load of nonsense am I reading here...
Windows NT based OS'es support hotswapping right out of the box. Just disable the
diskdrive in the device manager, then uninstall it. Remove the HDD from the rack,
put the other one back in, issue a "detect new Hardware" and off you go.
A little word of caution, though. You really need to have special Hotswap racks
or none at all. The one with a common Centronics connector just won't do. Why is
that, you ask me? Well, it's because the IDE interface demands that you first plug
in power, and then the data cable. For unplugging: first data, then power. If you
don't follow this order, there's a chance of blowing your IDE controller. Normal
HDD racks, just connect everything at once, which is obviously not good.
Oh, and don't worry about the necessary bus reset; your IDE controller should handle
it just fine. And something else: Windows NT based stuff does _not_ rely on bios
stuff for HDD detection/handling.
Gr, SuSEQ
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- re: Hot Swap Hard Drives. (Fliggy: Thursday, May 1, 2003 at 10:05 am)
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