From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 31 Mar 2003 05:57:49 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 31 Mar 2003 05:57:49 -0500 Received: from [81.2.110.254] ([81.2.110.254]:9208 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 31 Mar 2003 05:57:49 -0500 Subject: Re: hdparm and removable IDE? From: Alan Cox To: John Bradford Cc: Ron House , Andre Hedrick , davidsen@tmr.com, Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <200303310930.h2V9U3vQ000202@81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk> References: <200303310930.h2V9U3vQ000202@81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Message-Id: <1049108898.15055.2.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.1 (1.2.1-4) Date: 31 Mar 2003 12:08:20 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 10:30, John Bradford wrote: > Something that occurs to me - if a machine has non hot-swap capable > IDE hardware, but has suspend to RAM functionality, presumably it is > OK from an electronic viewpoint to swap disks? What about PCI hot > swap? Presumably we can remove a non hot-swap IDE controller > completely, and re-install it with different drives connected? It is but Linux doesn't support it