I have an Asus A7V333 and accoding to those nice guys over at MS, Win2k Supports IDE HD hot swap aslong as i have a fully functional CPI board, so anyone know if i can do it without frying my HD?
Urmm............IDE hot swapping, well IDE drives arn't usually designed with hotswapping in mind, thats more an SCSI (SCA) type thing, but I guess its possible. You will have to tweak a few Windows settings I think ('Make drive removeable'), tick a box in device manager or something, otherwise when you yank the drive out it blue screens (did that with my spare drive once, unplugged the IDE cable by accident and the PC just crashed totally)
heres the gunf from MS: IDE Devices Windows 2000 supports hot swapping of IDE devices such as floppy drives, CD-ROM drives, and hard drives. As with PC Card devices, this is only available if the computer is ACPI-enabled. Non-ACPI-enabled computers can swap IDE devices, but to do so requires restarting the computer. Also, you should stop IDE devices by clicking the Unplug/Eject icon or Add/Remove Hardware in Control Panel before you swap them or remove them. Important Some ACPI-enabled machines may not be fully ACPI compliant or support the ability to hot swap mass storage IDE-based devices without rebooting. In these cases, removing an IDE-based device without first shutting down the computer could physically damage the device.
