SOHO Backups?

[Bill McGonigle]

On Nov 15, 2005, at 15:50, Ed Lawson wrote:

> Just to clarify, when you say turn it off, you mean simply
> turning off the hotswap drive tray before you take it out and
> plugging the next one in and then turning the drive on.  Right?

Exactly right.  After unmounting, the drive/sled is still powered by 
the tray/IDE bridge chip in the case (a standard 5.25" Firewire/USB2 - 
$40 online or $80 at CompUSA).  I've tried hotswaping them with the 
drive case/tray powered on but the IDE bridge chip (Oxford 911, I 
think) doesn't recognize the re-insertion of a new disk.  I expect 
there's some electrical safety (the electronics', not mine) advantage 
as well.

As a bonus, hotplug will see the power-on of the case as a new cable 
being plugged in and automount the new disk for you.

-Bill

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