I haven't done hot-plug with it, so cannot vouch for that working or not. I use one of the ESATA ports to go to a 4x external drive enclosure (so using FIS), with spinning disks that are solely for backups (zfs send/receive of snapshots), and two of the internal ports for SSDs in a zpool.
ScottE On Mon, Dec 3, 2018 at 7:00 PM Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I found the manufacturer website. It says this card supports Hot Plug and > Hot Swap. Have you ever did this? If so, any problems? I don't know why > but outside of USB, that sort of thing makes me nervous. I'm old school I > guess. Plugging things into a computer was always done when the puter was > off. > > Just curious. Oh, I did order a card. Now to figure out the situation on > a hard drive. :/ > > Dale > > :-) :-) > > Scott Ellis wrote: > > Yes, I have that card (well, the 2 internal/2 external port version). > Works fine with the AHCI driver on x86_64. No quirks needed, supports FIS, > etc. > > ScottE > > On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 5:50 PM Michael Orlitzky <m...@gentoo.org> wrote: > >> On 11/30/18 8:15 PM, Dale wrote: >> > >> > Does anyone have a card and know for sure that this works and is >> > stable? Also, any clues on what driver it takes? >> > >> >> Probably the standard "ahci" driver. >> >> >> >
