On 26 Mar 2003, Alan Cox wrote:
> IDE hotswap at drive level is not supported by Linux. It might work ok.
> Providing you shut the drive down fully and flush the cache before you
> unregister/unplug and replug before registering the new interface
There was a bunch of discussion of this, possibly on this list, and I
believe that the whole cable has to be unregistered or some such. I've
done it with only one drive on a cable, and it seemed to work. On the
other hand I was only playing.
I've seen some note regarding using ide-floppy for the whole drive instead
of the media, but I have never had the urge to try that.
WARNING: removable and hot swapable bays are not the same, had a client
prove that to herself the hard way.
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