Re: Reality of SATA hotplug?
Ron Johnson wrote:
Hi,
If a loose SATA cable falls off of my DVD drive while the power is on,
is it ok for me to just slide it back in? Or should I power the machine
down?
If SATA hotplug *does* work "on the desktop", does that also mean that I
could plug a new hard drive in while the system is running?
YMMV. I have hotplugged SATA on Win XP and it works plugging OUT,
(Doesn't necessarily blow anything up) but to plug IN, the device will
sometime recognize, and mostly won't, unless you reboot.
With a Software RAID, the hotplug works if you tell the RAID management
software what you are going to do BEFORE you do it.
Never tried it on Debian.
Mark Allums
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