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Apparently, though unproven, at 23:46 on Wednesday 15 December 2010, Mark |
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Knecht did opine thusly: |
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> On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 1:16 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> |
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wrote: |
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> > Apparently, though unproven, at 23:02 on Wednesday 15 December 2010, |
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> > Volker |
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> > Armin Hemmann did opine thusly: |
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> >> and where do you get that internal ports can't do hotplug? |
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> > He never said that. Here's what he did say: |
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> > 1) Internal SATA drives are at the end of a single cable and don't |
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> > require hot-plugging logic be built into the SATA port driver on the |
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> > SATA controller because they are always powered up. (They are inside |
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> > the case) |
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> > "don't require" != "can't do" |
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> Thank you Alan. |
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You're welcome. This raises an interesting question - hotplugging isn't |
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mandated but it is implemented widely. How widespread is it? Eg can we |
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reasonably assume a recent motherboard probably does support it? |
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I thinking of USB daisy chaining - it's possible but hardly ever used, so it |
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might as well not even be in the spec at all |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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