Maybe OT: Hot Swapping Drives

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Chris Guimbellot

Hello,

Win2K. I have a Dell Inspiron 3500 with swappable 3.5 and CDRom drives. The
problem is that I cant swap them. The only way it works is to power down the
system, swap, and reboot. According to Dell's website, it originally came
with a program called Softex Bay Manager. It only mentions that the program
works on Win95, 98, ME, and NT4. I am assuming the lack of reference to
Win2000/XP means that in those versions of Windows, you do not need the
software. Is this the case? Any ideas on something I can check?

I have provided the link to the article on Dells site below. Thanks,

Chris

http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/format.aspx?releaseid=r12137&c=us&l=en&s=gen&cs=
http://support.dell.com/support/top...kb/en/document?dn=1019182&c=us&l=en&s=gen&cs=
 
http://www.softexinc.com/baymanagerpage.asp

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Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
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Microsoft MVP [Windows]
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:
| Hello,
|
| Win2K. I have a Dell Inspiron 3500 with swappable 3.5 and CDRom drives.
The
| problem is that I cant swap them. The only way it works is to power down
the
| system, swap, and reboot. According to Dell's website, it originally came
| with a program called Softex Bay Manager. It only mentions that the
program
| works on Win95, 98, ME, and NT4. I am assuming the lack of reference to
| Win2000/XP means that in those versions of Windows, you do not need the
| software. Is this the case? Any ideas on something I can check?
|
| I have provided the link to the article on Dells site below. Thanks,
|
| Chris
|
|
http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/format.aspx?releaseid=r12137&c=us&l=en&s=gen&cs=
|
http://support.dell.com/support/top...kb/en/document?dn=1019182&c=us&l=en&s=gen&cs=
|
|
 
Try contacting DELL tech support

The release date indicated that these are 1999 files and probably
weren't tested against Win2K.
 
Dave,

Thanks for the link. Do you think if I upgrade to XP, I wouldn't need the
software, or does this have nothing to do with what version of windows you
are running. Thanks,

Chris

Dave Patrick said:
http://www.softexinc.com/baymanagerpage.asp

--
Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect

:
| Hello,
|
| Win2K. I have a Dell Inspiron 3500 with swappable 3.5 and CDRom drives.
The
| problem is that I cant swap them. The only way it works is to power down
the
| system, swap, and reboot. According to Dell's website, it originally came
| with a program called Softex Bay Manager. It only mentions that the
program
| works on Win95, 98, ME, and NT4. I am assuming the lack of reference to
| Win2000/XP means that in those versions of Windows, you do not need the
| software. Is this the case? Any ideas on something I can check?
|
| I have provided the link to the article on Dells site below. Thanks,
|
| Chris
|
|
http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/format.aspx?releaseid=r12137&c=us&l=en&s=gen&cs=
|
Click to expand...
http://support.dell.com/support/top...kb/en/document?dn=1019182&c=us&l=en&s=gen&cs=
|
|
Click to expand...
 
Just guessing here but no matter the OS version you'll probably need the hot
swap manager.

http://www.softexinc.com/findfaqpage.asp?FindFaq_Action=Find('symptomno','73')

--
Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect

:
| Dave,
|
| Thanks for the link. Do you think if I upgrade to XP, I wouldn't need the
| software, or does this have nothing to do with what version of windows you
| are running. Thanks,
|
| Chris
 
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