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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Cc: Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Questions about SATA and hot plugging.
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 22:05:42
Message-Id: 201012152316.54010.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Questions about SATA and hot plugging. by Volker Armin Hemmann
1 Apparently, though unproven, at 23:02 on Wednesday 15 December 2010, Volker
2 Armin Hemmann did opine thusly:
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4 > and where do you get that internal ports can't do hotplug?
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6 He never said that. Here's what he did say:
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8 1) Internal SATA drives are at the end of a single cable and don't
9 require hot-plugging logic be built into the SATA port driver on the
10 SATA controller because they are always powered up. (They are inside
11 the case)
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14 "don't require" != "can't do"
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17 alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

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