IDE hotswap at drive level is not supported by Linux. It might work ok.
Providing you shut the drive down fully and flush the cache before you
unregister/unplug and replug before registering the new interface
> Here are a few other factoids that may be relevant. This utility comes
> with Windoze drivers to set up hot-swapping. I installed them and they
> worked, but immediately Partition Magic started crashing Windoze
> whenever it was run. This behaviour even continued after uninstallation
> of the hot-swap drivers. Furthermore, at that point Linux started
> producing lines like this in /var/log/messages:
>
> Mar 26 13:35:44 Loris kernel: hdd: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady
> SeekComplete Error }
> Mar 26 13:35:44 Loris kernel: hdd: dma_intr: error=0x84 {
> DriveStatusError BadCRC }
Looks like it left the drive misprogrammed
Alan
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