Hot-swap SATA and atacontrol

[Søren Schmidt]

On 02/08/2005, at 9:42, Justin Finkelstein wrote:

> OK; so, what you're saying is that it'll be ok to pull the drive if  
> I've
> unmounted it?
> In that case, is the atacontrol step unneccesary? My thinking is  
> that it
> might be, but it's just another step to ensure nothing goes wrong.

"depends"

If the SATA controller supports hotswap ATA will notice when you yank  
the drive and detach it properly from the system (ATA wise, if  
mounted you get into trouble). Also it will autodiscover any SATA  
driver added, again only on supporting chipsets (and those I know how  
to handle).

- Søren