Bruce Marshall
On Wednesday 24 March 2004 09:26 pm, Sid Boyce wrote:
I thought the idea of SATA was that drives could be hotplugged, making it very useful for cloning disks for other boxes and making backups that could be detached and stowed away safely - all without having to take the box down. Regards Sid.
Someday, maybe. Kernel 2.6.x, Maybe.
For now, why can't you accept that SATA is relatively new and linux always has to catch up because vendors won't write the code for their hardware.
-- +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ + Bruce S. Marshall bmarsh@bmarsh.com Bellaire, MI 03/24/04 21:38 + +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Rather than a beep Or a rude error message, These words: "File not found."
Hi, I don't think the issue is about taking the box down, that can be overcome, I think the bigger issue is making sure that all the info was writtne to the HD before it is unpugged. Unix (and Linux) have been about multiple users working on the same box. So if I go an unplug something without any warning, it could cause a problem (especially if thre is stuff in swap which hadn't been written to the disk yet) And not to throw stones, but that other OS that thinks in terms of: My computer! My network! My Documents! My pictures! has no problem of thinking: My Harddrive !!! -- "I once thought of making a Linux distribution... then I slapped myself silly and went back to trying to solve the nuclear waste problem" -- Anonymous -- __________________________________________________________________ Introducing the New Netscape Internet Service. Only $9.95 a month -- Sign up today at http://isp.netscape.com/register Netscape. Just the Net You Need. New! Netscape Toolbar for Internet Explorer Search from anywhere on the Web and block those annoying pop-ups. Download now at http://channels.netscape.com/ns/search/install.jsp