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From: Eivind Eklund <perhaps@yes.no>
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> I've got too many surprises with too many different IDE drives to ever
> touch it again.  I'm used to hot-plug SCSI devices all over the place
> (first plug them onto the bus, then set the power plug)

I'm doing this with IDE drives.  The only problem I've had so far has
been with a power-lug on another drive that very much minded even a
minor touch, but that isn't an IDE problem.

Not that I run IDE on anything beyond low-end boxes - the hot-swapping
is to build those low-end boxes :-)

Eivind.