Greets, > If you wanted a hot-swappable setup, you might try setting up some sort of > ramdisk root fs with the ide driver compiled as a module and all your > important > stuff (/usr, /var etc) mounted off your ide drive, you could then drop to > single > user mode, umount the ide devices, rmmod the driver and maybe have a chance.
Maybe I neglected to mention that it isn't actually the boot device. I have /dev/hdc1 mounted as /usr/local/rem, set as 'noauto' in /etc/fstab, so it's not as if it should actually be trying to read or write to it anyway, should it? damon -- Damon Muller | Did a large procession wave their torches ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | As my head fell in the basket, Network Administrator | And was everyone dancing on the casket... EmpireNET | - TBMG, "Dead" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
