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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. IDE isn't, but Firewire is... by GreenKiwi · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You can get IDE to ieee1394 (firewire) adapters that plug into the back of your hard drive. Now, you just get a nice firewire controller and you have a hot swapable device.

    I think that the last time I checked, these controllers were around $40-50... And firewire's very cool.