Ron Johnson: > > If a loose SATA cable falls off of my DVD drive while the power is on, is > it ok for me to just slide it back in? Or should I power the machine > down?
Generally you don't have to power down. (Of course, if a filesystem on
the drive was mounted, you probably have to fsck it after plugging the
drive back in.)
> If SATA hotplug *does* work "on the desktop", does that also mean that I
> could plug a new hard drive in while the system is running?
Generally yes. But from what I have read, many consumer-grade mainboards
/ SATA controllers don't support that feature very well. But it
shouldn't hurt to just try it.
J.
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