Hello nate / list. [...]
> second if you don't fork out the cash for a ide hot swap backplane your > best bet I think would be to get a good removable disk drive holder, > and before removing the disk, power it down using hdparm. be sure nothing > is using the disk(no mounted filesystems etc). and you can possibly > remove it and replace it with another drive of the EXACT same type(same > model, same size, same cylinders, same heads etc), and power the drive up. This sounds pretty much what I do. I use one disk to transfer things from my work (with internet connection) to my home net (without int. con.). Unmounting, spinning down and removing the disk works fine. However when I plug the disk in again and try to mount it the computer hangs (or at least seems to, I haven't waited more than some minute). That is the same disk, but it still doesn't work. Is there a way to force the disk to "spin up" before trying to mount it? There don't seem to be a "reverse -Y option" to hdparm, does anyone know of any other utility that might be worth trying? Best regards, // Emil -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
