On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 1:16 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > > Thank you Alan.
Cheers, Mark