A8V IDE hot-swap.... when did that happen?

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Did I miss something somewhere?

The VT8237 Southbridge on my A8V Deluxe ver2.0 *seems* to allow IDE hotswap
(under XP SP2)! That is - the PATA drives not the SATA which it *is*
supposed to support. Is this a feature I missed in my reading? Or is this an
undocumented feature that I sure as hell would have like to have known about
earlier?

Pete

 

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Immuno wrote:
> Did I miss something somewhere?
>
> The VT8237 Southbridge on my A8V Deluxe ver2.0 *seems* to allow IDE hotswap
> (under XP SP2)! That is - the PATA drives not the SATA which it *is*
> supposed to support. Is this a feature I missed in my reading? Or is this an
> undocumented feature that I sure as hell would have like to have known about
> earlier?
>
> Pete
>
>

If you mean that the PATA drive shows up in "Safely Remove Hardware",
probably an oddity in the driver - PATA hardware definitely doesn't
support it, at least not safely..

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"Mercury" <me@spam.com> wrote in message news:crdttn$ji$1@lust.ihug.co.nz...
> The interface was not designed with this in mind.
> You are more likely seeing a well written OS with well written drivers
> handling an error situation extremely well.
>
> IE I have had power fail on drives from bumping cables etc many times and
> no OS crash - this is what you would want.
>
> I suggest you don't push your luck.
>
> - Tim
>

I've still not seen this "documented" anywhere -and am beginning to come to
the same conclusion. Its just that I'm so USED to system hangs when I've
done similar (stupid) things in the past...

Anyhow, I now take the precaution of going into the Device Manager and
uninstalling the drive, ...which it does. Do the change-over, ask it to
"scan for hardware changes", gets picked up... and off we go again. It's
been good for a couple of dozen swaps so far in a single session. I've been
torturing a AV8 with a 3000+ Winchester with HTT set at 280 (2.5GHz) 😱)) -
just thought I'd do something useful with it like go through my pile of
"I'll just check it one more time before I bin it" pile of old HD's while it
was sitting there.

The puzzling thing is that not only does the OS seem to be "happy" but I
don't see any BIOS issues changing 5400/7200's, 66/100/133's, brands or
FAT32/NTFS either.

Anyway - I'm certainly not complaining!

Pete