Re: hdparm and removable IDE?

From: John Bradford (john@grabjohn.com)
Date: Mon Mar 31 2003 - 06:21:06 EST


> > 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?

John.
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