Re: hdparm and removable IDE?

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Mon Mar 31 2003 - 06:43:54 EST


On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 12:21, John Bradford wrote:
> > > Something that occurs to me - if a machine has non hot-swap capable
> > > IDE hardware, but has suspend to RAM functionality, presumably it is
> > > OK from an electronic viewpoint to swap disks? What about PCI hot
> > > swap? Presumably we can remove a non hot-swap IDE controller
> > > completely, and re-install it with different drives connected?
> >
> > It is but Linux doesn't support it
>
> Not yet :-)
>
> Seriously, I thought both were under active development - is this a
> 2.7, or 2.9 timescale thing?

Probably yes

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