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On Mon, April 16, 2012 3:47 pm, Dale wrote: |
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> J. Roeleveld wrote: |
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>> On Sat, April 14, 2012 4:28 pm, Florian Philipp wrote: |
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>>> As we are out of rational ideas, have you tried unplugging the old |
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>>> disk? |
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>>> You don't need it for booting at the moment, right? AS SATA is |
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>>> hot-plugin capable, you can re-insert it later. |
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>> Be careful here, not all SATA-controllers/ports on mainboards are |
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>> hotplug |
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>> capable. I have a mainboard that becomes really unstable when I try to |
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>> hot(un)plug a harddisk. |
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>> It runs perfectly fine as long as I switch the computer off before |
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>> swapping harddrives. |
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> According to the manual, mine is. Given my luck, I don't want to try |
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> it. ;-) |
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If the manual says it is, then probably it will be. |
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I have 2 mainboards I tried it with that don't mention either way for |
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hotswap in the manuals. |
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One gets unstable, the other works perfectly. |
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The last mainboard I bought actually has an option in the BIOS where I can |
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specify per SATA-port which are to support hotswap or not ;) |
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