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Swapping IDE Drives in Linux without Rebooting?

Posted by michael on from the precious-uptime dept.

Hasufin writes "I've got quite a few of those removable IDE drive bays in my computers. I'd like to be able to swap these drives without the need of rebooting linux. I've searched quite a bit via google and other resources but haven't found a good how-to. Any pointers? I've seen few mentions to hdparm -U & -R and a script or two, but haven't had any luck using it w/ my promise udma/66 & udma/100 offboard pci controllers... :\ Any help appreciated!"

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  1. hot-swapping by mosch · · Score: 5, Funny

    I've had great luck with hot-swappable drives! The trick is to take your IDE devices and run over them with a large vehicle. Now make an emergency requisition of SCSI or FibreChannel devices, and all will work exactly as you were hoping.