another SATA question

[Squibbly]

i was lead to beleive that SATA drives are hot pluggable, is that the case
or am i just imagining that??

 

[nos1eep]

It is further alleged that on or about Wed, 8 Mar 2006 01:30:47 -0000,
in alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt, the queezy keyboard of "Squibbly"
<[email protected]> spewed the following:

|i was lead to beleive that SATA drives are hot pluggable, is that the case
|or am i just imagining that??
True, with certain limitations.
http://www.maxtor.com/_files/maxtor...apers_technical/sata_hot_plug_white_paper.pdf

 

[John Weiss]

i was lead to beleive that SATA drives are hot pluggable, is that the case or
am i just imagining that??

For most home machines, pure imagination.

However, that doesn't mean there isn't a hot-pluggable/swappable SATA RAID
controller out there; and there are certainly external enclosures available
(EIDE as well as SATA) that are hot-pluggable for data (not boot) drives...

 

[Andrew]

It really depends on your SATA controller.

Technically even IDE is hot-swappable but the controller needs to be
top of the line. Usually in Hot-Swap systems (i.e. Servers) the
controller continually monitors the hard-drive for an 'on-line' state.
In most home PC's the monitoring is not included and the controller
assumes that the drive is either always on or always off. In RAID
controllers the controller cards is almost always asking if the HD is
alive or not.