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Hot swapping SATA drives, anybody done it yet?
Has anybody here done any hot swapping of SATA drives yet? I understand
they are supposed to be more capable than PATA drives in this respect, but I have never done any hot removal or installation myself. I have 5 sata drives myself, but all of them are in raid arrays that I prefer not to mess with. So close yet so far away. I am wondering, if I have 1 SATA drive used solely for data, is there a command or process I can go through in XP to ready the drive for ejecting/swapping? It would be awesome if there was a command line for mounting/unmounting a drive. ANY tips are greatly appreciated! Thanks! --Dan |
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"dg" wrote in message m... Has anybody here done any hot swapping of SATA drives yet? Yep. I understand they are supposed to be more capable than PATA drives in this respect, but I have never done any hot removal or installation myself. I have 5 sata drives myself, but all of them are in raid arrays that I prefer not to mess with. So close yet so far away. I am wondering, if I have 1 SATA drive used solely for data, is there a command or process I can go through in XP to ready the drive for ejecting/swapping? I've been looking for that too. It would be awesome if there was a command line for mounting/unmounting a drive. Uninstall in Device Manager or wait past last access for 1 minute and just pull it out seems to work ok. |
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As far as a command goes, I bet Linux has a command that could do it. Such
a simple thing to ask of XP, but big enough of a benefit that it tempts me to try running Linux on this particular machine. --Dan "Ron Reaugh" wrote in message ... "dg" wrote in message m... I am wondering, if I have 1 SATA drive used solely for data, is there a command or process I can go through in XP to ready the drive for ejecting/swapping? I've been looking for that too. It would be awesome if there was a command line for mounting/unmounting a drive. Uninstall in Device Manager or wait past last access for 1 minute and just pull it out seems to work ok. |
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