Disk duplicators

[John Abreau]

On Mon, 2005-06-20 at 09:16 -0400, Bill McGonigle wrote:

> You can't hotswap those IDE sleds on linux yet, but a reboot is so much 
> faster than the USB bridge.  I have a firewire card sitting on top of 
> the machine to try out next time I update the kernel.

I had that same problem with IDE sleds. A few months ago, I picked up 
a usb2 card and a usb2 drive enclosure that could hold the IDE tray 
mechanism, and it works great. I do need to power-cycle the drive 
enclosure when I swap sleds, but I no longer have to reboot the PC 
to swap them. 

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