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re: Hot Swap Hard Drives. Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at 1:44 pm Posted by JONATHON (2 messages posted) I HAVE SUSE 8.2, ALSO CADDIES CANT HOT SWAP..? WHAT COMMAND LINE DO YOU USE, I TRIED RIGHT CLIOCKING ON IT AND IT SAID IT WAS BUSY..? THANKS JONATHON On Monday, March 3, 2003 at 10:21 am, Fliggy wrote: >I have two IDE caddy's for hard drives. > >i use them all the time on what was my linux server and could hot swap the drives >when the OS was loaded -i'd unmount the drive, swap them over and re-mount the new >drive. > >Is there any way to do similar with Windows 2000? >whenever i try it the pc crashes. > >thanks in advance > >~Fliggy [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Hot Swap Hard Drives. Thursday, May 1, 2003 at 6:49 am Posted by JONATHON (2 messages posted) 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... On Monday, March 3, 2003 at 10:21 am, Fliggy wrote: >I have two IDE caddy's for hard drives. > >i use them all the time on what was my linux server and could hot swap the drives >when the OS was loaded -i'd unmount the drive, swap them over and re-mount the new >drive. > >Is there any way to do similar with Windows 2000? >whenever i try it the pc crashes. > >thanks in advance > >~Fliggy [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Hot Swap Hard Drives. Thursday, May 1, 2003 at 10:04 am Posted by Fliggy (90 messages posted) i just unmount them on the command line (umount /drive/location) i have had problems with SUSE tho. On Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at 1:44 pm, JONATHON wrote: >I HAVE SUSE 8.2, ALSO CADDIES CANT HOT SWAP..? WHAT COMMAND LINE DO YOU USE, I TRIED >RIGHT CLIOCKING ON IT AND IT SAID IT WAS BUSY..? >THANKS JONATHON > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Hot Swap Hard Drives. Thursday, May 1, 2003 at 10:05 am 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... > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Hot Swap Hard Drives. Monday, May 5, 2003 at 12:58 pm 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 [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 2000 Discussion Forum