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Jonathan Hutchins
hutchins at tarcanfel.org
Mon Aug 16 02:04:03 CDT 2004
On Sunday 15 August 2004 08:12 pm, Brian Kelsay wrote:
> And jhutchins, you can't hot-swap IDE as far as I know. You risk
> a total system failure and are likely to burn up a motherboard or a
> drive. Only SCSI does hot-swap.
Not true. Hot-swap capability DOES have to be built into the interface, and
you'll fry a non-HS SCSI system just as bad as an IDE drive if it's not meant
for it, as most on-motherboard SCSI systems are not.
One of the things you need is something that makes a very clean connection of
all the pins at reasonably close to the same time.
It may be a little tougher to hot-swap IDE drives due to their initialization
sequence, but I have seen systems that had that capability.
SCSI just isn't the big mystical super hardware everybody keeps trying to sell
it for. Sure it'll do great things - at very high prices, things other
hardware standards can match at similar price points.
More over-priced, over-hyped high-end stuff tends to be SCSI, but that's got a
lot more to do with marketing than any imagined superior technology.
(Which reminds me of SysAdmin magazine giving a great review to a rack-mount
keyboard and flat panel display - that cost over $4,000. Some peopel are
stupid about money.)
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