[TriLUG] Re: Dieing hard drive?

[Brian Henning]

> On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 12:20:25 -0500, Joseph Mack <mack.joseph at epa.gov> 
> wrote:
>> Brian Daniels wrote:
>>
>>
>> are these hot swappable?
>>
>> Thanks Joe

The last PCI IDE controller card I bought advertised "Hot pluggable" on the 
box.  For a PCI IDE card, it's (essentially) a given that it's going to be 
an internal installation.  I was skeptical, and I care about my data too 
much to try it..  I have been known to pull the power connector on a live 
IDE drive from time to time (being careful to not do so during a write) with 
no perceivable ill effects to the data, although at least in Windows, its 
sudden disappearance (apparently whether or not it's 'mounted') can throw 
the OS into fits (I never did this on "C:"..  just on "D:" and an unmounted 
ext3-partitioned drive)..

My marginally-educated $0.02. :-)

~B