[Cialug] Poor man's hot-swappable hard drive

[Barry Von Ahsen]

Daniel Wittenberg wrote:
> IDE like that wasn't ment to be hot-swappable, so you could definitely
> fry something.  You might get lucky and have it work, maybe not.  Your
> OS would also have to know how to rescan for IDE changes, which usually
> only happens with SCSI/FW/USB.  I think they do make hot-swap IDE disk
> carriers, and obviously scsi/firewire work as well.  I would suggest
> just buying an external USB or firewire drive and using that instead.
> 

Agreed (with the frying). I've tried to connect a cdrom's power while 
the machine was running.  I made contact somewhere with the case, and 
tripped the breaker on the ps.  Didn't blow everything up, luckily.

-barry