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Stephen Anderson wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 28 Oct 1999 11:58:47 GMT, reply.to@NG.please (Ross) 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?
> >
> >Ross
> 
> My cradles have key switches on the front.  When the key is turned to
> the remove position, all power is cut to the drive.  Surely this is
> the same as having a sudden power outage, or if you turn off the pc.
> So I can't see how this would do anything to the drive that turning
> off the computer doesn't already do.
> 
> However I can't see how you could hot swap a new drive back into the
> craddle without rebooting the OS.

What would happen if the drives that you are using are exactly the
same size (and model number). Jaz drives (1GB or 2GB) are removable
(hot swappable if you wish) and the HDD caddie (cradle, whatever)
are similar. The trick as I see it is to get the OS to understand
that the drive (non-boot drive) is a "removable" not "fixed" hard
drive.

If the driver were "AUTO" detected, or if the parameters were
set as a result of an auto detect at one time in the BIOS, then
installing another drive with different paramters would cause
problems, so the drives at minimum have to be identical in
terms of paramters, or perhaps the "volume" number needs to be
the same.

-Dane

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