On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 10:01:54PM +1200, Patrick Mackey wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I too am interested in being able to do this. With IDE hard drives being
> inexpensive and holding a lot of data it makes sense to use them as backup
> mediums. It would be nice to be able to hot swap IDE drives.
> 
> Can the IDE bus be refreshed or is it a limitation of the OS, BIOS or IDE
> controller?

Not yet but I'm working on a buch of changes that should (amongs other things)
allow it.
This reminds me I need to buy a rack that supports hot-plug :)

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