Re: DE and hot-swap disk caddies

Andre Hedrick
2002-03-28T00:28:14Z

On Thu, 28 Mar 2002, Alan Cox wrote:

> I would imagine Dell have stuff there to do electrical isolation, or that
> they have parts of the IDE controller built into the actually removable drive
> unit itself. With additional electronics you can safely do IDE hot plugging,
> but you do need the electronics and the host co-operation.

You are on the money now!

It requires more than what the average joe OS can do on its own.

Cheers,

Andre Hedrick
LAD Storage Consulting Group