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To: Sam who wrote (1106)	10/21/1998 11:49:00 PM
From: Pierre-X	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 2025

Re: Device Bay Here's some good news on the Device Bay front: ------------------------------------------------ Ephraim Schwartz, CLIENT/SERVER : Agate revives Device Bay concept., Vol. 20, InfoWorld, 10-19-1998 Although the Device Bay promoted by Compaq, Intel, and Microsoft never went beyond the prototype stage, a lesser-known company, Agate Technologies, will begin shipping its version of the universal hot-swap bay technology in November. System OEMs using the technology, including Hewlett Packard and NEC, have tweaked the BIOS in their notebooks to work with the Agate technology for hot-swapping hard drives, floppy drives, CD-ROMs, Iomega Zip drives, LS-120 SuperDisk drives, TR4-type tape drives, and Magneto-Optical drives. "If the drive has an ATAPI interface, our software will recognize it and load the driver," said Randall Benway, vice president at Agate. The company will also offer for desktop systems a 5.25-inch bay, named the Hot Data Shuttle, that will give users the capability to hot-swap the same drives now recognized in its notebook product. The system will work with Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows NT 4.0. The Hot Data Shuttle is installed into a desktop and connected to the ATAPI/IDE interface. Any 3.5-inch device can then be inserted into the bay and automatically configured by the system. However, Benway did say the drivers are only basic device drivers that do little more than recognize the new peripheral. Agate Technologies Inc., in Fremont, Calif., can be reached at www.agatetech.com. Agate's forthcoming device bay will allow hot swapping for many peripherals. * Hard disk drives * Iomega Zip drives * TR4 tape drives * LS-120 SuperDisk drives * Magneto-Optical drives Copyright © 1998 InfoWorld Media Group Inc.