> I would imagine Dell have stuff there to do electrical isolation, or that
> they have parts of the IDE controller built into the actually removable drive
> unit itself. With additional electronics you can safely do IDE hot plugging,
> but you do need the electronics and the host co-operation.
You are on the money now!
It requires more than what the average joe OS can do on its own.
Cheers,
Andre Hedrick
LAD Storage Consulting Group
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