Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Questions about SATA and hot plugging.

[Mark Knecht]

On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 1:16 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote:
> Apparently, though unproven, at 23:02 on Wednesday 15 December 2010, Volker
> Armin Hemmann did opine thusly:
>
>> and where do you get that internal ports can't do hotplug?
>
> He never said that. Here's what he did say:
>
> 1) Internal SATA drives are at the end of a single cable and don't
> require hot-plugging logic be built into the SATA port driver on the
> SATA controller because they are always powered up. (They are inside
> the case)
>
>
> "don't require" != "can't do"
>
> --
> alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
>
>
Thank you Alan.

Cheers,
Mark