Re: can a hard disk in removable cradle be hot-swapped?

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From: John Johnson
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:00

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I accidental did it once and yes the disk was trashed, not the data
but the electronics.

>In aus.computers.ibm-pc Ross <reply.to@NG.please> wrote:
>: I've just installed removable hard disk cradles so I can put a
>: removable (second) hard disk in each PC.   So far, I've been turning
>: the PC off for safety before pulling out the hard disc cradle.
>: However, it would be a lot more convenient if I could treat it like a
>: floppy - ie, so long as the drive is not actually writing to disk at
>: the time, can you pull the disk out while the PC and Windows are still
>: powered up?
>
>: Is this OK?   Won't hurt the hard disk, I hope?
>
>hurt? trash more like it heh
>
>neither ide nor most scsi is hot swappable as is, as the other poster pointed out no software support for it either in
>doze,
>
>its what you would call a really really bad idea
>
>bah

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