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From: Serguei Patchkovskii <ps ^%at%^ ned1.sims.nrc.ca>
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To: Malcolm Gillies <malcolm #at# kemi.dtu.dk>
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Subject: Re: CCL:EIDE vs SCSI & backup in Linux clusters
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On Thu, 6 Jun 2002, Malcolm Gillies wrote:
> The remaining advantage of SCSI for me is the ability to swap drives
> easily, and to connect drives in an external enclosure. As far as I
> know, hot-swapping of IDE drives is currently impossible.  

A number of vendors (e.g. http://www.promise.com/) will gladly sell 
you hot-swap enclosures for IDE/ATA drives, often used with RAID 
controllers. They are not particularly uncommon, or expensive.

Serguei