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Re: [emax] Re: CF Drive for Emax II

2014-07-08 by Ted Summers

A zip drive works more like a floppy and has a disk change sensor in the mechanism. Flash media drives don't work in quite the same way.

I am just going by my experience.... Hot swap of flash type media have given me corrupted catalog / HD errors .. happened to me on different drives on different Emaxes....

YMMV, but again, I don't recommend swapping flash.

-T


On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 9:02 AM, xeelox@... [emax] <emax@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

>>Please also note that while a drive may support hot swap, Emax does not. You can corrupt your HD catalog if you are hot-swapping.

Interesting. Is this true for any drive connected to the scsi chain or just the boot drive can't be hot swapped?

I don't own a Zip drive but I was under the impression you could swap one of those disks w/o powering down. Is that not true?


Thanks,
Jim


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