From: Mark Watts <m.watts@eris.qinetiq.com>
To: keithl@ieee.org, Keith Lofstrom <keithl@kl-ic.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Hot Swapping IDE using USB2 cage
Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2003 16:01:01 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200309091601.01731.m.watts@eris.qinetiq.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030908193207.GA29053@gate.kl-ic.com>
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> A month back, there was discussion about hotswapping IDE disks.
> I have a solution that seems to work, indirectly, using the SanMax
> InClose PMD96-USB2 Mobile Dock. This cage is physically compatable
> with the PMD96i direct IDE cages, but has a translator from IDE
> (LBA48!) to USB2, which I connect to a USB2 PCI card in my system.
> With USB hotswap enabled, the system seems to recognize when
> disks are added and removed. This allows me to do backups to
> cheap big IDE hard drives, and swap them out for safekeeping.
> For more information, look at my web page in progress:
>
> http://www.keithl.com/linuxbackup.html
>
> I am still working on this, so your mileage may vary. I am
> incompetent at software, so a more clueful person is welcome
> to take over and do this right. In any case, this provides a
> functional solution for IDE hotswap without kernel patches, and
> that might free up some wizard time for other needed tasks.
>
> Keith
This isn't IDE hotswap, its USB hotswap with USB Mass-Storage devices.
Mark.
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Mark Watts
Senior Systems Engineer
QinetiQ TIM
St Andrews Road, Malvern
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-09-09 15:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-09-08 19:32 Keith Lofstrom
2003-09-09 15:01 ` Mark Watts [this message]
2003-09-09 16:33 ` Keith Lofstrom
2003-09-09 17:00 ` Alan Cox
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