Re: Waiting for a powercut...
  By: ryan42 to Sam Alexander on Thu Jun 08 2006 11:11 am


 >   Re: Waiting for a powercut...
 >   By: Sam Alexander to Angus McLeod on Thu Jun 08 2006 10:08 am
 > 
 >  >   Re: Waiting for a powercut...
 >  >   By: Angus McLeod to ryan42 on Thu Jun 08 2006 10:01 am
 >  >
 >  >  >   Re: Waiting for a powercut...
 >  >  >   By: ryan42 to Angus McLeod on Thu Jun 08 2006 02:27:00
 >  >  >
 >  >  >  > As for hard disks I believe some SATA controllers
offer hotswapping
 >  >  >  > capability already. But I have had sevarel Macs
with SCSI and I ALW
 >  >  >  > hotswapped stuff on the SCSI bus and used HD tools
to mount it and 
 >  >  >  > a problem. . .
 >  >  >
 >  >  > Actually, they *are* SATA drives, but AFAIK they don't
have hot-swap
 >  >  > capability.
 >  >  >
 >  >  >
 >  >
 >  > On my Mac most of my storage is external via Firewire drivebays...  this 
 >  > a good option if you have LOTS of drives you need to switch between.
 > Yes indeed, but I am talking of Macs with 68040 processors with 500 MB
 > external drives... :-P Long long ago.
 > 
 > 

Ahh, gotcha :)  My Powermac was my first Mac to use, though I've since 
collected a Mac Classic, Performa, and iMac (G3 processor), plus my trusty 
ibook I bou ght last year :)

Sam


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