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From: John Bradford <john@grabjohn.com>
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Subject: Re: hdparm and removable IDE?
To: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox)
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 12:21:06 +0100 (BST)
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> > Something that occurs to me - if a machine has non hot-swap capable
> > IDE hardware, but has suspend to RAM functionality, presumably it is
> > OK from an electronic viewpoint to swap disks?  What about PCI hot
> > swap?  Presumably we can remove a non hot-swap IDE controller
> > completely, and re-install it with different drives connected?
> 
> It is but Linux doesn't support it

Not yet :-)

Seriously, I thought both were under active development - is this a
2.7, or 2.9 timescale thing?

John.
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