On 15/12/2010, at 7:58pm, Mark Knecht wrote: > ... > 1) Internal SATA drives are at the end of a single cable and don't > require hot-plugging logic be built into the SATA port driver on the > SATA controller because they are always powered up. (They are inside > the case)
I'm not sure this is the case. This is what I have in my closet: http://www.tstcom.com/product_details.asp?ID=4 The backplanes seem pretty dumb. When you remove a drive, you seem to be hot-swapping it near-directly from the SATA controller. Stroller.
