umount hard drives

[Warren Togami]

If you have a 3Ware Escalade RAID controller, you can hot-swap IDE drives in
this fashion.

Too bad the controller costs several hundred dollars. =)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rodney Kanno" <pepe65 at hawaii.rr.com>
To: "Linux & Unix Advocates & Users" <luau at list.luau.hi.net>
Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2001 12:01 PM
Subject: [luau] Re: umount hard drives


> 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