Removing removable ATA hard drives

2006-10-05 Thread Jonathan McKeown
I recently bought a drive caddy for an ATA hard drive. The unit is in two parts: a cassette, into which can be fitted a standard ATA hard drive, and a carrier permanently fitted into a standard drive bay. The carrier includes a power keyswitch for the drive bay. I installed it, brought the box

Re: Removing removable ATA hard drives

2006-10-05 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, I'm reluctant to experiment any more than I have done: the server the drive bay has been fitted to is our live fileserver, with 120GB of user data on two drives on the other ATA channel. I know I would take time to install the drive bay in a test machine, with an old disk and play with

Re: Removing removable ATA hard drives

2006-10-05 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Thursday 05 October 2006 10:38, Olivier Nicole wrote: Hi, I'm reluctant to experiment any more than I have done: the server the drive bay has been fitted to is our live fileserver, with 120GB of user data on two drives on the other ATA channel. I know I would take time to install the

Re: Removing removable ATA hard drives

2006-10-05 Thread Olivier Nicole
I'm reluctant to experiment any more than I have done: the server the drive bay has been fitted to is our live fileserver, with 120GB of user data on two drives on the other ATA channel. I know I would take time to install the drive bay in a test machine, with an old disk and play

Re: Removing removable ATA hard drives

2006-10-05 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Thursday 05 October 2006 11:00, Olivier Nicole wrote: [Power down a drive bay using its built-in keyswitch and pull the disk without dropping the whole box] Unless you need to move that disk from one machine to another, fix it in your server, keep the tray for future testing when you will

Re: Removing removable ATA hard drives

2006-10-05 Thread Olivier Nicole
I should probably have said: we don't currently have offsite backups (we've exceeded the capacity of our tape device and our budget), and the quick-fix solution is dumping to this hard drive and then pulling it out and taking it home. USB box? At least it is known to be hot plugable. With

Re: Removing removable ATA hard drives

2006-10-05 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Thursday 05 October 2006 10:34, Jonathan McKeown wrote: I recently bought a drive caddy for an ATA hard drive. The unit is in two parts: a cassette, into which can be fitted a standard ATA hard drive, and a carrier permanently fitted into a standard drive bay. The carrier includes a power

Re: Removing removable ATA hard drives

2006-10-05 Thread Antony Mawer
On 5/10/2006 7:31 PM, Jonathan McKeown wrote: I should probably have said: we don't currently have offsite backups (we've exceeded the capacity of our tape device and our budget), and the quick-fix solution is dumping to this hard drive and then pulling it out and taking it home. As such the