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Greetings,
Actually, I can put the nail in the coffin. You can *not* hot-swap
the boot drive on the Thinkpad. If you try, there is a good chance that
either the drive or the thinkpad will require service.
Regards,
-=Chris
At 08:53 95/11/27 -0800, Randy Whittle wrote:
>At 9:58 AM 11/27/95, Michael Klenner wrote:
>
>>Are ThinkPad hard drives hot-swappable? I am considering getting a second
>>internal drive as opposed to an external drive or removable media drive, but
>>if I were to pick up an 810 or so, would I need to install an operating
>>system and all, or could I boot from my primary drive and hot-swap in the
>>second? My feeling is, probably not.
>
> I'm 99% certain there is no way you can do this. You'd have to
>shut down the system, insert the new drive, and boot off of the new drive.
>
> Since the whole command processor is geared to what it sees at boot
>time, switching that around afterwards would be a real problem.
>
> Even removable drives like a SyQuest require that it *not* be the
>boot drive if you intend to switch cartridges around while running.
>
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