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
