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February 10th 07, 03:39 PM
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hot swaping drives
My motherboard has SATA connections
I have a number of old IDE disks and a PATA removable caddy I would like to know if I purchased a SATA to IDE adapter to connect a SATA port on the motherboard to the caddy could I then safely hot swap IDE disks in the caddy ? Regards & TIA 
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February 10th 07, 05:58 PM
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"Jim Burton" wrote in message ... My motherboard has SATA connections I have a number of old IDE disks and a PATA removable caddy I would like to know if I purchased a SATA to IDE adapter to connect a SATA port on the motherboard to the caddy could I then safely hot swap IDE disks in the caddy ? What OS are you running? Window XP doesn't support hotswapping PATA drives at all.
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February 10th 07, 06:11 PM
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Oh Dear ... XP Pro .... so that's the end of that idea
"Noozer" wrote in message news:xJnzh.936485$R63.254915@pd7urf1no... "Jim Burton" wrote in message ... My motherboard has SATA connections I have a number of old IDE disks and a PATA removable caddy I would like to know if I purchased a SATA to IDE adapter to connect a SATA port on the motherboard to the caddy could I then safely hot swap IDE disks in the caddy ? What OS are you running? Window XP doesn't support hotswapping PATA drives at all.
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February 10th 07, 10:17 PM
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On Sat, 10 Feb 2007 18:11:25 -0000, "Jim Burton"
wrote: Oh Dear ... XP Pro .... so that's the end of that idea Not necessarily, you can swap drives hooked up to some discrete controllers, but it is because the separate controller is designed to accomodate it. In such cases the drive needs to be unplugged from the bus before power, and *new* drive plugged into power before bus... the idea being you dont' want an (electrically) dead device on the bus. As for whether an PATA adapter would allow it, may depend largely on whether you could've done same with an SATA drive, though there are no guarantees.
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February 11th 07, 01:12 AM
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"Jim Burton" wrote in message ... My motherboard has SATA connections I have a number of old IDE disks and a PATA removable caddy I would like to know if I purchased a SATA to IDE adapter to connect a SATA port on the motherboard to the caddy could I then safely hot swap IDE disks in the caddy ? If you want "hot swap" get a USB2 external enclosure
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February 11th 07, 03:30 AM
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On Feb 10, 7:39 am, "Jim Burton" wrote:
My motherboard has SATA connections I have a number of old IDE disks and a PATA removable caddy I would like to know if I purchased a SATA to IDE adapter to connect a SATA port on the motherboard to the caddy could I then safely hot swap IDE disks in the caddy ? Regards & TIA There is such thing as a hot swap caddy for IDE drives.You can even get away with pulling out the ribbon cable and power cable while the computer is live. But it's not really a great idea. You can probably do it with USB.
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February 11th 07, 06:06 AM
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wrote in message ups.com... On Feb 10, 7:39 am, "Jim Burton" wrote: My motherboard has SATA connections I have a number of old IDE disks and a PATA removable caddy I would like to know if I purchased a SATA to IDE adapter to connect a SATA port on the motherboard to the caddy could I then safely hot swap IDE disks in the caddy ? Regards & TIA There is such thing as a hot swap caddy for IDE drives.You can even get away with pulling out the ribbon cable and power cable while the computer is live. But it's not really a great idea. But XP does NOT support hotswapping IDE drives. Windows 98 does though. There is no option on an IDE hard drive to disable write caching, etc. so you can never be sure if Windows still has something to put onto the drive.
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February 11th 07, 08:24 PM
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Is it just a question of flushing the write cache that will make it unsafe
..... or is there an electrical problem with spikes etc when switching off the power to a drive in the caddy ? "Noozer" wrote in message news:6oyzh.931980$1T2.611824@pd7urf2no... wrote in message ups.com... On Feb 10, 7:39 am, "Jim Burton" wrote: My motherboard has SATA connections I have a number of old IDE disks and a PATA removable caddy I would like to know if I purchased a SATA to IDE adapter to connect a SATA port on the motherboard to the caddy could I then safely hot swap IDE disks in the caddy ? Regards & TIA There is such thing as a hot swap caddy for IDE drives.You can even get away with pulling out the ribbon cable and power cable while the computer is live. But it's not really a great idea. But XP does NOT support hotswapping IDE drives. Windows 98 does though. There is no option on an IDE hard drive to disable write caching, etc. so you can never be sure if Windows still has something to put onto the drive.
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February 11th 07, 08:40 PM
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On Feb 11, 12:24 pm, "Jim Burton" wrote:
Is it just a question of flushing the write cache that will make it unsafe .... or is there an electrical problem with spikes etc when switching off the power to a drive in the ca Both. "Noozer" wrote in message news:6oyzh.931980$1T2.611824@pd7urf2no... wrote in message oups.com... On Feb 10, 7:39 am, "Jim Burton" wrote: My motherboard has SATA connections I have a number of old IDE disks and a PATA removable caddy I would like to know if I purchased a SATA to IDE adapter to connect a SATA port on the motherboard to the caddy could I then safely hot swap IDE disks in the caddy ? Regards & TIA There is such thing as a hot swap caddy for IDE drives.You can even get away with pulling out the ribbon cable and power cable while the computer is live. But it's not really a great idea. But XP does NOT support hotswapping IDE drives. Windows 98 does though. There is no option on an IDE hard drive to disable write caching, etc. so you can never be sure if Windows still has something to put onto the drive.
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February 11th 07, 09:16 PM
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wrote in message ups.com... On Feb 10, 7:39 am, "Jim Burton" wrote: My motherboard has SATA connections I have a number of old IDE disks and a PATA removable caddy I would like to know if I purchased a SATA to IDE adapter to connect a SATA port on the motherboard to the caddy could I then safely hot swap IDE disks in the caddy ? Regards & TIA There is such thing as a hot swap caddy for IDE drives.You can even get away with pulling out the ribbon cable and power cable while the computer is live. But it's not really a great idea. You can probably do it with USB. OK - Do you know if there are any internal PATA HDD caddies available ?
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