hi ya you should NOT have to unmount fs before taking the disk out... ( scsi drives not have that requirement either...
i think that hotswap disks are NOT trivial issue to get it working right... ide makes hotswapping even harder to implement... i hope it has an sca connector c ya alvin On Tue, 15 May 2001, Kevin Ross wrote: > > We have purchased a bunch of hot swap IDE trays for a > > proposed backup server. When they are pulled out, the > > computer freezes. Has anyone experienced this and if > > yes have they found a solution for this. > > > > I'm using the 2.2.18 kernel. > > Just checking, but did you umount the filesystems first? >
