And the SATA controller has to support it. Some do, some don't. Optimism is an occupational hazard of programming: feedback is the treatment. --- Kent Beck
On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 11:57 -0700, larry price wrote: > unmount the volumes first. > > just because the hardware handles hotplug gracefully doesn't mean that > the operating system will. > > On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 11:43 AM, Allen Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The connectors on a SATA drive have offset pins. They appear to > > be designed for hot-plugging. This is an *internal* drive connector. > > I have researched topics I could find via google. I've never heard > > of anyone having trouble hot-plugging SATA. And the following > > article implies that any SATA hardware should be able to be > > hot-plugged without damage. > > http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0BRZ/is_11_22/ai_98977131/pg_8 > > > > Have any of you done this? Anybody hear of troubles doing it? > > -- > > Allen Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://brown.armoredpenguin.com/~abrown/ > > Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. > > _______________________________________________ > > EUGLUG mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug > > > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
