On 15/12/2010, at 4:59pm, Andrea Conti wrote: >>> The SATA spec allows for hot plugging, so technically yes ... >> My recollection of my understanding (multiple disclaimers) was that SATA >> *allowed* for SATA hot-plugging but didn't *mandate* it. > > ... > We have quite a number of software RAID setups with SATA disks in hot-swap > backplanes; so far we found that hotplug works quite reliably on Intel > (ICH9R/ICH10R), AMD (SB700/SB800) and Silicon Image (sil3132) controllers.
That is *extremely* helpful, thank you. Stroller.