Re: hdparm and removable IDE?

[Alan Cox]

On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 12:21, 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
> 
> Not yet :-)
> 
> Seriously, I thought both were under active development - is this a
> 2.7, or 2.9 timescale thing?

Probably yes