> On Fri, 5 Jun 1998, Dave Wreski wrote:
>
> >
> > > [...] I bumped the power cable on my hard disk and
> > > jolted it enough that it disconnected. OH SHIT! The computer
> > > seemed to be ok still... I pressed some keys... no problem... I
> > > was freaking! I carefully grabbed the power cable and put it
> > > back on WHILE THE COMPUTER REMAINED ON!!
> >
> > I blew up a 130M Seagate, back when they were hundreds of dollars by
> > accidentally jarring the hard disk cable. You're very lucky.
> >
> > Hard disks are still hundreds of dollars, so when you do happen to mention
> > this story, you might want to say you had precious data that wasn't quite
> > flushed from cache, and you had no choice but to _intentionally_ re-insert
> > the power cable ;)
> >
> You also removed the plug at the right moment, had linux been mid access
> you could have seen a reboot.
>
Or utterly trashed data and drive and data on other drives...
> I have however hot swapped ide drives, on my secondary ide. (only my
> old 200meg)
> I was really pressed for time, and I don't reccomend it at all. if anyone
> does unmount the drive first.
>
No, just don't do that period. It is extremely unsafe for data and
hardware. The man got incredibly lucky. (FWIW, hardware, 25+ years)
-Mike
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