[Eug-lug] Hot swap SATA

[Quentin Hartman]

On 1/2/07, Garl Grigsby <badd_karma at comcast.net> wrote:
> That just sounds scary to me... I can just imagine getting the card a
> bit cockeyed and getting shorting out to adjoining pins.... Oooh! Look
> at the pretty smoke...

As I understand it (and it's likely I misunderstand....) architectures
that support PCI hotplugging don't run power to the PCI slots until a
very low voltage continuity/ground test succeeds. This "card sense"
indicates that a card is properly slotted and prevents accidentally
letting the magic blue smoke out.

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-Regards-

-Quentin Hartman-