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On Mon, 27 Nov 1995, Randy Whittle wrote: > At 2:39 PM 11/27/95, kevin king wrote: > 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. It's a somewhat different issue. If we disconnect an IDE drive, we remove it from the line. If you pop the cartridge on a Syquest IDE drive, the physical decive is still connected, but the media has been removed. Booting off the device isn't the major issue - you can deal with those issues. More important is if the device is checked by the OS to see if there has been a disk change. Floppies are supposed to do this, Syquest drives do as well. However, most OSes don't check "fixed" drives for change lines. That's why there's usually a driver of some sort for those Syquests. You can use them w/o the dirver, but only if you don't change carts while the machine is on.