[gentoo-user] (OT) Hotplug SATA drive?

[gentoo-user] (OT) Hotplug SATA drive?

[Anthony E. Caudel]

I recently bought a third SATA drive and a carrier and am trying to 
determine if it can be un/plugged while hot.  I have googled and there 
seems to be different answers depending on the controller, the drive, 
the kernel version (I'm using 2.6.18) and maybe even the day of the week.

Does anyone have any answers or can point me to a place with some 
definitive answers?

Tony
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Re: [gentoo-user] (OT) Hotplug SATA drive?

[Kent Fredric]

On 1/22/07, Anthony E. Caudel <acaudel@gt.rr.com> wrote:
> I recently bought a third SATA drive and a carrier and am trying to
> determine if it can be un/plugged while hot.  I have googled and there
> seems to be different answers depending on the controller, the drive,
> the kernel version (I'm using 2.6.18) and maybe even the day of the week.
>
> Does anyone have any answers or can point me to a place with some
> definitive answers?
>
> Tony
> --
> Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary
> Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
>     -- Benjamin Franklin
> --
> gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
>
>

I am using a Silicon Image SATA Add-in PCI card, and also have VIA
Onboard SATA. Both seem to support SATA HOTSWAP in linux, as long as
the device is properly freed from things accessing them. Kernel 2.6.18
might be the deal clincher, but so might be turning on full APIC
support, wich for somereason seemed related.

As far as udev is concered with sata as far as I can tell, SATA drives
will act just like a USB key :)
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