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| Thread ID: 75061 | 2006-12-15 02:10:00 | Any one know how to hot swap a drive? | Neil McC (178) | Press F1 |
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| 506778 | 2006-12-15 02:10:00 | I have installed another carriage thingy for plug in hard drives.Sata. I understand I can turn the drive off with the front key when it's not busy and remove it? That works ok.Is this the correct method? But how do I get the pc to see the drives when plugged back in without rebooting? Have had a look on Google! Thanks. |
Neil McC (178) | ||
| 506779 | 2006-12-15 02:30:00 | Hot swapping is the ability to remove and replace components of a machine, usually a computer, while it is operating. Once the appropriate software is installed on the computer, one can plug and unplug the device without rebooting. An example of this is the Universal Serial Bus (USB), that allows a user to add or remove peripheral devices such as a mouse, keyboard, or printer. See Here (www.google.co.nz) From Memory hot swap only applies to SCSI and USB devices most other devices will require a reboot. Cheers chiefnz |
chiefnz (545) | ||
| 506780 | 2006-12-15 06:47:00 | The best way is to click the "Safely Remove Hardware" icon and remove it that way, you don't have to, but it is the safest way, otherwise just make sure nothing is using it. The drives should just appear once they have been plugged in and spun up, my eSATA drive does with no reboot needed. SATA can be hot swapped |
The_End_Of_Reality (334) | ||
| 506781 | 2006-12-15 09:14:00 | Thanks guys, but The_End_Of_Reality, it's an onboard drive, not plugged in via usb. My external backup drives do operate like you say. This is a plugin unit in the pc so I can swap hard drives for video work. No worry.I'll just reboot when I need to use them.:) |
Neil McC (178) | ||
| 506782 | 2006-12-15 09:32:00 | I know they are, but my SATA drive shows that icon. | The_End_Of_Reality (334) | ||
| 506783 | 2006-12-15 09:38:00 | OK. Interesting. My 2 internal SATA drives don't show up on the Safely Remove Hardware icon.Only usb hubs,drives etc!! | Neil McC (178) | ||
| 506784 | 2006-12-15 10:05:00 | I'm not 100% sure but I think when your installing windows xp and it asks you for the drivers for scsi and sata this has something to do with the drives appearing in the Remove Hardware. I know this has happened with my last 2 computers. Haven't been game to try and remove them. It certainly threw me a bit when I saw it in there the first time, was sure I had setup something wrong. Are you running a server, as thats the only hard drive trays I've heard of. If its got the tray's you remove from the front of the case from the little I know you should be able to plug the drive straight in and the server will rebuild whatever setup you've got - raid etc (this applies to scsi not sure about sata). |
cbee (10858) | ||
| 506785 | 2006-12-17 20:52:00 | If it's one of the removable drive bays that you can get from DSE etc, then the lock I beleive is just to prevent you pulling out the drive accidentally. The normal method to swap drives is to power off the PC & change them over. Mind you, it's been a while since i've used them. :) |
autechre (266) | ||
| 506786 | 2006-12-17 23:32:00 | autechre "If it's one of the removable drive bays that you can get from DSE etc, then the lock I believe is just to prevent you pulling out the drive accidentally." Yep, it's called a caddy,as I've just remembered.And has a lock on it which kills the power to the drive as well. chiefnz, further in that quote you posted it does mention"Protocols that now support hot swapping include PCMCIA, USB, FireWire, Fibre Channel, SATA and SAS" But I still haven't found anything on how to do it!!! So still rebooting to swap drives. Thanks all. |
Neil McC (178) | ||
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