Re: [Plug] Hard Drive cutoff switch/cable?

["Nick R" <laktar@hotmail.com>]

Well w/ a little soldering and splicing you could make a little switch. Or 
they could just use Linux & not mount each drive.

       -Laktar, a.k.a. Nick Rosen, laktar.dyndns.org


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> From: Master and Servant <msimons@caip.rutgers.edu>
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> Subject: [Plug] Hard Drive cutoff switch/cable?
> Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1999 03:36:33 -0400 (EDT)
>
>
> Greetings...
>
>   A bit of a hardware question: [not linux specific]
>
> My friends have a need to install a second harddrive (their current one)
> in a new computer they are getting.  They want to be able to TOTALLY cut
> off access to the harddrive when they are using the harddrive/software on
> the other harddrive.  I am assuming that sometimes they will boot from HD
> #1 and sometimes from harddrive #2 -- when they boot from HD #2, they
> don't have to worry about turning off HD#1 -- but when they boot #1, they
> need to be able to turn off #2.
>
> Note: these are IDE drives.
>
> Any ideas?
>
>
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