umount hard drives

Rodney Kanno pepe65 at hawaii.rr.com
Tue Sep 25 15:01:57 PDT 2001


Yup, it's an IDE...darn....Thanks Jeff

Rodney

On Tuesday 25 September 2001 11:48 am, you wrote:
> 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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