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Hot Swapping?
Authored by: saint.duo on Sep 14, '04 03:13:44PM

Have you tried hot swapping any of your new drives yet? I'm curious if it works properly, considering I was told that the firmware on the drives used in the sleds has been modified to hot swap without issues.

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Hot Swapping?
Authored by: MorganizeIT on Sep 14, '04 04:02:19PM

I've replaced all three of the stock 60GB IBM ATA drives in my XServe G4 with Western Digital 120GB drives. I've had no trouble with hot swapping. However, when I tried to use a 250GB Western Digital drive it wouldn't mount or even show up in disk utility. I installed the 250GB drive into a PowerMac G4 and formatted it but it still was not recognized by the XServe.



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Hot Swapping?
Authored by: m1dg3 on Sep 17, '04 08:26:59AM

I've got Hitachi Deskstar 400GB drives in my XServe and they hot-swap just fine. YMMV.

It takes a bit of brute force and manual dexterity to get the drives in and out of the sleds though...



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