[vox-tech] Effective home disk backup systems

Bill Broadley vox-tech@lists.lugod.org
Mon, 1 Apr 2002 18:56:22 -0800


On Mon, Apr 01, 2002 at 02:41:50PM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> on kernel cousin i read this is something slated for linux 2.5.*.   
> it's being worked on, but is not in the kernel as of 2.5.1.   i've had
> *major* problems with 2.5.2, 2.5.3 and 2.5.4.  considering kernel
> development has been so poor lately, i haven't bothered checking out
> 2.5.5, 2.5.6 and 2.5.7, so i don't know if hotswappable ide made its way
> into the kernel yet.

hotswappable ide isn't just a driver issue.  There are some chipsets
that support it, but afaik none of the standard ones I.e. the one
on your motherboard do.

-- 
Bill Broadley
Mathematics/Institute of Theoretical Dynamics
UC Davis