Re: WTB: ThinkPad 755ce or cx

[whittle@usc.edu (Randy Whittle)]

At 2:39 PM 11/27/95, kevin king wrote:
>> >Are ThinkPad hard drives hot-swappable?
>
>>         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.
>
>Does this mean that you CAN swap drives if you boot off of a floppy?
>Just curious.
>
>kevin

        Good point.

        But as Don Whiteside pointed out, these are just standard IDE
drives and by definition can't be hot-swapped.

        However, if you booted off a floppy and had a SyQuest drive that
was your otherwise primary drive, yes, you could easily swap out a SyQuest
cartridge for another one--as long as you didn't boot off the SyQuest.

        But then, a removable like a SyQuest is designed to do that.  IDE isn't.

        Though I know SyQuest has IDE versions.  I don't know if you can do
it with those--I'm only familiar with SCSI.

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