Daniel Pittman wrote:
> david <[email protected]> writes:
>>>> (Admittedly, the last is only on really bad hardware, but hey, that
>>>> hardware is out there and still within the reasonable life of machines
>>>> for home users.)
>>>>
>>>> Anyway, once the hardware doesn't die completely you still need the
>>>> driver stack to notice and remove the now absent hardware from the
>>>> software "shadow" representation.
>>> Crap controllers are just that - crap ;-)
>> Returning to the original inquiry, and now that I know that I have a
>> 82801GB/GR/GH (ICH7 Family) SATA IDE Controller (Intel) How do I go
>> about finding out if it's safe to hot-swap?
>
> Did you try the libata status report page I posted the link to a while
> back? That should confirm that your ICH7 supports hotplug.
>
http://ata.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/SATA_hardware_features
When you posted I didn't know which controller was in there, now I do.
Chip Driver NCQ DMA++ hotplug PMP
ICH7 family ata_piix, ahci AHCI AHCI AHCI no
Since I still don't want to fry the drive, the question still remains (for me
at least, given that I'm not as erudite as some).... Will this hotplug??
especially since other controllers on this page are listed simply as "hotplug:
yes" rather than "hotplug: AHCI".
I guess I could just get an old SATA drive and try it, but from the discussion
there also seems to be a question mark about frying the PSU.
many thanks,
David
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