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Old February 29th 04, 09:23 PM
Rod Speed
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Mark M
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There are drive tray to allow you to hot-swap SATA drives.


Yes, and they arent that cheap.

But rather than using removeable trays, is it possible to hot-swap
SATA drives by disconnecting the power and the data cables of
one SATA drive and then reconnecting a different SATA drive?


Yes, the standard allows for that. Mostly in the design of the power
connector that ensures that OV is connected first on insertion and
last on removal. Hot plugging of the data cable is nothing special,
its been around for a long time now with CAT5 and USB etc.


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Old February 29th 04, 11:49 PM
Arno Wagner
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Previously Mark M wrote:
There are drive tray to allow you to hot-swap SATA drives. But
rather than using removeable trays, is it possible to hot-swap SATA
drives by disconnecting the power and the data cables of one SATA
drive and then reconnecting a different SATA drive?


The hardware supports this and the connectors where designed so
that the ground lines connect first.

However whether you OS can cope with an IDE disk vanishing and another
one truning up in its place is another matter.

Arno

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