{"id":554,"date":"1997-09-09T01:36:29","date_gmt":"1997-09-09T09:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.birdhouse.org\/betips\/?p=554"},"modified":"1997-09-09T01:36:29","modified_gmt":"1997-09-09T09:36:29","slug":"hot-swap-laptop-ide-drives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/?p=554","title":{"rendered":"Hot\n swap laptop IDE drives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not certain this tip will work on all laptops, but it does on my Dell Inspiron 3500.<br \/>\nUnder Win98 or NT, if you want to change from the modular CD-ROM drive to Zip or floppy etc, you have no choice but to shut down, swap drives (or battery) and reboot. <i>[Editor&#8217;s note: My Inspiron 3500 came with a SwapBay util in the control panel, but it&#8217;s slow and unreliable].<\/i> Even then, hot-swapping these modular drives under Win98 or WinNT will often crash the system entirely, or freeze the shutdown process.<br \/>\nUnder BeOS, however, you can simply swap the device, run DriveSetup, and pull down Rescan | IDE. The new drive appears in the Mount menu, ready to mount. Very convenient when I need the uptime provided by two batteries but need to quickly get a file off of Zip disk.<br \/>\nIf you prefer to use the command line rather than DriveSetup, these commands will achieve the same effect:<\/p>\n<pre> rescan mountvolume -all <\/pre>\n<p><code>mountvolume --help<\/code> will tell you that the flag <code>-r<\/code> will rescan automatically, but I found it unreliable. You can make these into a little script by putting the &#8218;magic cookie&#8216; (<code>#!\/bin\/sh<\/code>) at the top, and running <code>chmod +x<\/code> on the file. Once you&#8217;ve got a working script, link to it from the Be menu &#8212; whenever you swap a drive, you can just run the script to mount the new volume on the desktop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not certain this tip will work on all laptops, but it does on my Dell Inspiron 3500. Under Win98 or NT, if you want to change from the modular CD-ROM drive to Zip or floppy etc, you have no choice but to shut down, swap drives (or battery) and reboot. [Editor&#8217;s note: My Inspiron [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-hardware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}