On Thu, 13 Feb 2003, Anders Widman wrote:
> > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > > Anders Widman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>The others want to make Linux a viable option for "normal" users and > >>want Linux to be able to replace Windows or Mac OS. The only way I see > >>that happen is if Linux starts to get more userfriendly and safe. > > > Last time I checked, Windows and Mac OS come to a near total halt when > > they see a disk error while doing a write on non-removable media, unless > > the application goes to extraordinary lengths to handle the error itself. > > Actually no. :) Windows continue to run (ok, maybe now win9x or WinNT, > but these are old anyway). You can just remove a harddrive in Windows > XP and the system continues to run. Or you can add new PCI cards and > Windows will find those too. > > Provided you first shut it down, then yes. I am not aware of PC hardware that will allow you to savely do this with power on the board. Disk removal and addition also worked using Win2K. And by the way, also using Linux -:) If you get troubles with the system disk under windows, i do not know what happens, likely to be interesting... And I have had Linux running with 1 disk disconnected after it was mounted. unexpexted SCSI disconnect. All kept working, except for the paritions that were unreachable. Which happened to be reiserfs and were unharmed. Cheers Rudy P.S. I am getting RAID for that particular system...
