[Eug-lug] Hot-plugging SATA

[Mike Cherba]

And the SATA controller has to support it.  Some do, some don't.

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treatment. --- Kent Beck


On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 11:57 -0700, larry price wrote:
> unmount the volumes first.
> 
> just because the hardware handles hotplug gracefully doesn't mean that
> the operating system will.
> 
> On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 11:43 AM, Allen Brown <abrown at peak.org> wrote:
> > The connectors on a SATA drive have offset pins.  They appear to
> >  be designed for hot-plugging.  This is an *internal* drive connector.
> >  I have researched topics I could find via google.  I've never heard
> >  of anyone having trouble hot-plugging SATA.  And the following
> >  article implies that any SATA hardware should be able to be
> >  hot-plugged without damage.
> >   http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0BRZ/is_11_22/ai_98977131/pg_8
> >
> >  Have any of you done this?  Anybody hear of troubles doing it?
> >  --
> >  Allen Brown  abrown at peak.org  http://brown.armoredpenguin.com/~abrown/
> >   Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
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