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    Wouldn't it be cool if some drive manufacturer releases a DVD drive with an on/off button?
    That way it would be very easy to physically 'unplug' your drive(s). Just switch off the drive(s), mount your image and play

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    Serial ATA is supposed to support swapping. A power button would be a nice addition.
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    • #3
      You could do that with a power switch in the drives' power cables... That should do the trick, I think. Interesting idea, too bad I don't even have SATA
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      • #4
        you'd need to either scann for hardware changes as you switch them off, or otherwise convince windows that they'r'e hot swappable as it grinds to a halt if an IDE drive is missing when it should be there.

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        • #5
          DON'T EVER DO THE FOLLOWING!!!
          I don't take any responsibility for any broken system because you tried this!


          Actually I just unplugged the power connectors from my two DVD drives and they disappeared in the open explorer window... They don't come back when I plug in the power connector again though. But at least XP seems to recognize missing drives pretty quickly!
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          • #6
            DON'T EVER DO THE FOLLOWING!!!
            I don't take any responsibility for any broken system because you tried this!


            There I stole his warning screen. I can add drives onto my PCI controller card if I have my Promise Ultra BIOS installed/loaded at bootup, though I haven't tried to remove them without powering off. (first I plug in to the IDE cable then second I put the power cable in quickly and pray)
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            • #7
              Originally Posted by NetSoerfer
              DON'T EVER DO THE FOLLOWING!!!
              I don't take any responsibility for any broken system because you tried this!


              Actually I just unplugged the power connectors from my two DVD drives and they disappeared in the open explorer window... They don't come back when I plug in the power connector again though. But at least XP seems to recognize missing drives pretty quickly!
              Allready tried and my Win XP Pro Media Center fucks up ^^
              It recognize that the DVD is there and tries to load the CD/DVD and then windows stands still
              You weak pathetic fool, it's all to easy
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              • #8
                Originally Posted by Mystique
                Allready tried and my Win XP Pro Media Center fucks up ^^
                It recognize that the DVD is there and tries to load the CD/DVD and then windows stands still
                Maybe it's chipset depending. Thanks for quoting the warning too, by the way!
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                • #9
                  Maybe.Mine is nForce 4 SLI
                  You weak pathetic fool, it's all to easy
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                  • #10
                    I tried it too to just disconnect a drive while the PC was running. At first it seemed like it worked, I could play TM Sunrise (with extreme add-on).
                    But the next day when I hit the power button on the PC to switch it on, nothing happened. Maybe just some stupid coincidence, but the power supply was dead.

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                    • #11
                      This depends on the chipset. In my case, no matter if Windows, Linux, Solaris, DOS, or no OS at all, the PC cold-reboots instantly when I unplug either the power or IDE cable. I think SATA behaves better here. But with plain old ATA, most chipsets/controllers will spit fire.
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                        Aaah, what a horror story. I hope it was a coincidence.
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                        • #13
                          No, it's reproducable. No hardware damages or anything. Just a cold reboot.

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                          Well, I hope there aren't hardware damages!
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                          • #14
                            it should be noted that SATA CAN be hotswapable... not MUST BE hot swapable. That is to say, a SATA controller and drive can support the hot swap function but it is not a requirement to meet SATA standards (not even SATA2). And the vast majority of SATA drives and controllers are NOT capable of hotswapping.

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