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Subject: Re: hdparm and removable IDE?
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: John Bradford <john@grabjohn.com>
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On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 10:30, John Bradford wrote:
> 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

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