Re: [vox-tech] Effective home disk backup systems

[Henry House <hajhouse@houseaMAPSg.com>]

On Mon, Apr 01, 2002 at 02:41:50PM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> on kernel cousin i read this is something slated for linux 2.5.*.   
> it's being worked on, but is not in the kernel as of 2.5.1.   i've had
> *major* problems with 2.5.2, 2.5.3 and 2.5.4.  considering kernel
> development has been so poor lately, i haven't bothered checking out
> 2.5.5, 2.5.6 and 2.5.7, so i don't know if hotswappable ide made its way
> into the kernel yet.

It is good to know that this is making its way into the kernel. However,
hardware support is required for this. Ordinary IDE hardware will die a nasty
death if you try to hot-swap it.

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