SOHO Backups?

[Bill McGonigle]

On Nov 18, 2005, at 15:28, Ben Scott wrote:

>   I've read of expensive specialized hardware that tries to make
> hot-swap parallel ATA work, but if you're gonna spend the money on
> special hardware, you might as well buy SCA SCSI (or SATA, these days)
> and get something that's designed for it.  You usually get better
> performance while you're at it.

Right - the ones I've used have their own electronics (sometimes just 1 
IC) on the tray/carrier for handling the hot swap.  You don't hotswap 
the IDE drive electronics at all (that's bad, m'kay?), something else 
handles the hot-swap connection.  They also used a dedicated IDE bus 
per drive which probably makes it easier to handle master/slave 
nonsense in a hot-swap scenario.

-Bill

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