Hot Swapping Of IDE CD Burners

Question I know that you can Hot Swap some hard drives under win2k Server. Can you do the same thing with a CD-RW under win2k PRo??


[ July 17, 2001: This post was recently edited by Phogphire ]

I don't know... I've never tried to hot swap CD-RW/CD-ROM drives before.

Let me know if it works!!!



[ July 18, 2001: This post was recently edited by dazlink ]

[quote:917732a7dc]Originally posted by dazlink:
I don't know... I've never tried to hot swap CD-RW/CD-ROM drives before.

Let me know if it works!!!



[ July 18, 2001: This post was recently edited by dazlink ][/quote:917732a7dc]


Well I did some searching and I guess that it depends on whether the Hardware supports it, I gave it a shot but wasn't careful plugging in the power supply into the Burner, I thought that I fried my mobo or my Power supply, I did'nt I unlpluged the cord to the case power supply Nada, nothing I trieds it again then I flipped the switch off/on/off/on on the surge protector wada ya know the computer came back to life. No harm, no foul ( at least nothing show right now, who knows down the road,) I think that I got the power supply plug in at an angle and it shut it down, I know that you are supposed to be able to do it with IDE/SCSI drives on servers, (part of the redunacdacy I guess,) I think that I will try it again but on one of my older Pentium systems.

[spark25]

Not a good idea on 2k Pro.My system stopped,frozen.

What the hell am I on about!!!

I -=DO=- hot swap CD-ROMs... on my Dell laptop which runs Win2k Pro.

Must be a hardware thing, but the O/S moans it's ass off if I pull the CD-ROM unit out without booking apointment first in unplug or eject appet.

LOL, DOH!!!



[ August 08, 2001 03:45 PM: Last edited by dazlink ]

[dekarguy]

When I ran Win2k Pro, I hotswpped IDE CD-RWs and DVD-ROMs, just make sure the IDE cable is first, then power for plugging in, reverse for unplugging, I seem to have burned out my 40x CD-ROM by plugging in power first

DekarGuy