Re: CCL:EIDE vs SCSI & backup in Linux clusters

[Serguei Patchkovskii <ps ( ( at ) ) ned1.sims.nrc.ca>]

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