[TriLUG] Re: Dieing hard drive?

[Jeff Tickle]

On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 12:27 -0500, Joseph Tate wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 12:20:25 -0500, Joseph Mack <mack.joseph at epa.gov> wrote:
> > are these hot swappable?
> 
> A USB2.0 or Firewire enclosure would be hot swappable.  I don't think
> the IDE drive Swap Bay would be.  Although it does say that for Win 98
> and Win 98SE it is.  So there's got to be Linux support out there
> somewhere.

Check out the -R and -U options for hdparm.  Also make sure to note the
warnings about bringing about the apocolypse if used on the wrong
hardware.

-Jeff