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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. Re:power? by dfreed · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If disk gometry is the only reason that the HD can not be swapped, then assuming that you have a budget, but 2 or more identical drives to swap. That way the disk is physicaly the same and all you end up changing is the contents.