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At 2:39 PM 11/27/95, kevin king wrote:
>> >Are ThinkPad hard drives hot-swappable?
>
>> 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.
>
>Does this mean that you CAN swap drives if you boot off of a floppy?
>Just curious.
>
>kevin
Good point.
But as Don Whiteside pointed out, these are just standard IDE
drives and by definition can't be hot-swapped.
However, if you booted off a floppy and had a SyQuest drive that
was your otherwise primary drive, yes, you could easily swap out a SyQuest
cartridge for another one--as long as you didn't boot off the SyQuest.
But then, a removable like a SyQuest is designed to do that. IDE isn't.
Though I know SyQuest has IDE versions. I don't know if you can do
it with those--I'm only familiar with SCSI.
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