Re: WTB: ThinkPad 755ce or cx

[whittle@usc.edu (Randy Whittle)]

At 9:58 AM 11/27/95, Michael Klenner wrote:

>Are ThinkPad hard drives hot-swappable?  I am considering getting a second
>internal drive as opposed to an external drive or removable media drive, but
>if I were to pick up an 810 or so, would I need to install an operating
>system and all, or could I boot from my primary drive and hot-swap in the
>second?  My feeling is, probably not.

        I'm 99% certain there is no way you can do this.  You'd have to
shut down the system, insert the new drive, and boot off of the new drive.

        Since the whole command processor is geared to what it sees at boot
time, switching that around afterwards would be a real problem.

        Even removable drives like a SyQuest require that it *not* be the
boot drive if you intend to switch cartridges around while running.

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