making ide hard drive hot swappable?

[jimmy7386]

I have just bought a genica "hot swap" removeable hard drive caddy for my system which works no problem but the "hot swap" feature only works on windows 98 something to do with disc cacheing i think? Does anyone know a way round this in winxp?

 

[satrow]

Use Device Manager to "uninstall" before disconnecting. Once you have reconnected a new drive, use DM to "Rescan for hardware changes".

 

[jimmy7386]

thanks will give it a go

 

[rvnguy]

Caution if this drive is your boot drive....a data drive will be compat with hot swap but not the boot drive as a single.

rvnguy
"I know everything..I just can't remember it all

 

[jimmy7386]

no rvnguy its not the boot drive its the one out of my ps2 but thanks anyway

 

[jimmy7386]

got caddy to disconnect using device manager but when i put it back in and turn caddy on before i have time to refresh device list my pc just hangs??

 

[smah]

Despite what it says on the box - IDE drives are not intended to be hot swappable.

Steve

http://www.advancedheaters.com

 

[satrow]

I know what you're saying Steve ; I've only done it with bare drives (scores of times with dozens of drives in Win2K and XP) but not via a caddy (during the last six years, at least).

Sorry Jimmy, unless your caddy is solo on its' own channel, I'm out of ideas ...

 

[smah]

I also use these same genica ['hot' intentionally removed] swappable trays for changing my primary master (boot) drive. I have several different operating systems/beta software that I use for testing using these trays, but the system needs to be shut down before changing. The connector between the mount & tray is a traditional 80 pin SCSI SCA connector, but this does not make the IDE drive a SCSI hot-swappable drive. If you really want hot-swappable capabilities, look into SCSI drives. But even these SCSI drives are only intended to be hot swappable as a member of a RAID array.

Steve

http://www.advancedheaters.com

 

[jimmy7386]

ok cheers all