On Sat 13 Dec 2008 15:07:40 NZDT +1300, Jasper Bryant-Greene wrote: > In my experience the card needs to support AHCI (most modern cards do, but > clearly not all) for hotswap to work.
Thanks! Is this a function of the card, as opposed to the chip used? > I've had good experience with Silicon Image chipsets for add-in cards, and The tricky bit is to find cards which use them... > the Intel ICH line of on-board SATA controllers works really well. "on-board" meaning mobos? I'll file that away for later. > Addonics cards work well, you can get them at acquire.co.nz No you can't, not with absolutely 0 stock... Thanks for the tip though, but almost 3x the price is a tad annoying. Which models do you have hotswap experience with? Btw the "hotswap" on the VT6421 card can be made to "work" by reloading the sata_via module, obviously only while none of the disks is in use. Thanks, Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.
