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| Thread ID: 78664 | 2007-04-24 01:50:00 | Slaving a Hard Drive | rocky138 (10636) | Press F1 |
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| 543716 | 2007-04-24 01:50:00 | Normally if I slave a suspect HD to another system to check it out I will turn it off to do so. What is the likely outcome if I was to do it while it was running. Same question but with Optical Drive. | rocky138 (10636) | ||
| 543717 | 2007-04-24 02:05:00 | Never been stupid enough to try it, would not recommend it. | DeSade (984) | ||
| 543718 | 2007-04-24 02:11:00 | Yup, dont try it. You'll most probably fry the IDE port. | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 543719 | 2007-04-24 03:33:00 | If both drives on an IDE port using CS mode aren't connected at power up, the controllers don't know which one is master and which is slave. I suspect M/S might behave in the same way. Interfaces built with separate TTL chips would not be damaged by hot plugging; the modern interfaces built into centipede packages are probably a bit more fragile. So it's probably a bad idea, unless you have a system designed for hot plugging. |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 543720 | 2007-04-24 04:53:00 | Thank you I thought along the same lines. | rocky138 (10636) | ||
| 543721 | 2007-04-24 05:17:00 | What is the likely outcome if I was to do it while it was running. The owner would smack you. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 543722 | 2007-04-24 06:34:00 | Yes most likely, it was to avoid such an eventuality that I posted the question in the 1st place. | rocky138 (10636) | ||
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