I have a machine running Win2K pro on an IDE ribbon cable. I have a serial Ata drive with WinXP pro that I think is corrupt. I NEED to get some info off of it. Can I introduce the serial drive while the machine is on? Like a USB device?????
Nooooo no you can't do that. Nooo no no no nooooo. You need a special hot swappable drive bay and devices to go with it not to mention the Mobo has to be prepared for it.
absoletly correct, what will happen is that the drive will not be recognized, and then you will also have a slight possibility (altough it's never happened to me) that you get corruption or freeze the computer up or something you will not like.
So that everybody knows one advantage that the S-ATA has from ATA is not only the speed increase but also it can be supposly hot swapped. Meaning removing and adding a S-ATA HD on the pc at any time without needing to shut down the pc. Haven`t tried it, but it supposly works.
So that everybody knows one advantage that the S-ATA has from ATA is not only the speed increase but also it can be supposly hot swapped. Meaning removing and adding a S-ATA HD on the pc at any time without needing to shut down the pc. Haven`t tried it, but it supposly works.
The mother board has to support hot swap or it won't initiallize the drive correctly.
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The mother board has to support hot swap or it won't initiallize the drive correctly.
So far I believe only NF3/4 are hot swappable, maybe NF2 as well but no intel chipsets.