J. Roeleveld wrote: > > On Mon, April 16, 2012 3:47 pm, Dale wrote: >> J. Roeleveld wrote: >>> >>> On Sat, April 14, 2012 4:28 pm, Florian Philipp wrote: >>> >>> <SNIPPED> >>> >>>> As we are out of rational ideas, have you tried unplugging the old >>>> disk? >>>> You don't need it for booting at the moment, right? AS SATA is >>>> hot-plugin capable, you can re-insert it later. >>> >>> Be careful here, not all SATA-controllers/ports on mainboards are >>> hotplug >>> capable. I have a mainboard that becomes really unstable when I try to >>> hot(un)plug a harddisk. >>> It runs perfectly fine as long as I switch the computer off before >>> swapping harddrives. >> >> According to the manual, mine is. Given my luck, I don't want to try >> it. ;-) > > If the manual says it is, then probably it will be. > > I have 2 mainboards I tried it with that don't mention either way for > hotswap in the manuals. > One gets unstable, the other works perfectly. > > The last mainboard I bought actually has an option in the BIOS where I can > specify per SATA-port which are to support hotswap or not ;) > > -- > Joost > > >
I need to look again. Now that I think about it, I think only a couple of mine support it. I just plan to cut mine off and be safe, unless the house is on fire. lol Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words! Miss the compile output? Hint: EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--quiet-build=n"
