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Old November 25th 10, 03:47 PM posted to comp.arch.storage
Maxim S. Shatskih[_2_]
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Default External Drive Dock to Allow Hotswap SCSI to Attach by USB?

What is the need in this?

SCSI drives are much more expensive.

So, you do the following:
- turn off the enclosure
- plug the usual SATA drive to it
- turn on the enclosure
- attach it to the host using USB, 1394 or eSATA. In eSATA case, you sometimes need to restart the host controller's driver using Windows Device Manager or the appropriate Linux/FreeBSD command line tools
- go on

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Maxim S. Shatskih
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"W" wrote in message ...
NewerTech make a product named Voyager Q to interface SATA drives to a host
by USB, Firewire, or eSATA. This is sometimes called a "drive toaster"
because of the way you can mount a drive vertically into the enclosure
without the need for any tray. Does anyone make something similar for a
hotswap SCSI drive? It would be incredibly useful for forensics and the
occasional drive backup to be able to just slip a hotswap SCSI drive into
the vertical slot and hot plug it to the host.

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W