[rescue] cheap terabytes

[Bran Tregare]

IDE Hot swap use a drive caddy with the connector on the back similar to 
SCA.  usually there's keyswitch on the drive assembly that you turn to 
power down the defective drive, put hte new drive in and lock/powerup the 
new drive.

At 06:42 PM 7/20/01 -0400, you wrote:
>On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 11:10:48AM -0700, Gregory Leblanc wrote:
> > As for hot swap...  Hmm.  Doesn't sound very feasible to me, not with
> > IDE anyway.
>
>What is the off state for IDE drives?  I'm assuming that is is the bus
>going silent and the power being cut.  So, the IDE controller would just
>has to silence the bus, and when the tray was pulled, the power gets
>cut.  And, how hard could it be to build an IDE controller?  Isn't that
>something that an FPGA could be programmed to do?
>
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>Joshua D. Boyd
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