umount hard drives

[Jeff Mings]

If this is an IDE device, you will certainly screw it up if you remove 
it while the computer is on, even if you turn off the power to the drive 
itself.  SCSI disks will allow this, but IDE devices will choke.  I 
learned this the hard way after much experimentation.

-Jeff Mings



Rodney Kanno wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I was wondering, how safe is it to umount a hard drive, and remove, then 
>replace it and mount it while the computer is still on? I have a removeable 
>hard drive (not a zip or jazz) but an actual hard drive that I converted to a 
>removeable and I want to remove and replace it without shutting down the 
>computer.
>
>Thanks,
>Rodney
>
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