[ale] OT:Hard Drive Switcher

[Courtney Thomas]

What's wrong with using drive "carriers" and when you want to switch 
OSes....switch the plugins ? Then you are machine/OS independent.

HTH

Ryan Williams wrote:

> Maybe some of you know of a alternative product for doing this. I am 
> building a system that has two 120Gig drives and I want it to be a dual 
> boot system. Instead of messing with the boot loader, I was thinking 
> about having Linux on one drive and XP on the other and installing a 
> switch to swap between master and slave settings on the drives. There is 
> an article on how to do this yourself here:
> 
> http://www.techtv.com/screensavers/howto/story/0,24330,3425846,00.html
> 
> But I was hoping to find a plug and play product that would do this 
> without me having to mess with soldering and drilling. There used to be 
> a company called NickLock that made one, but they appear to have gone 
> under. There is also a company called Romtec who make a product called 
> the Trio, but it is expensive and does far more than I need (intended 
> for 3 drives).
> 
> Anybody on the list doing something like this? If so, what did you use?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Ryan
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