On Fri, Apr 12, 2019 at 10:29:33AM -0400, Allan Streib wrote:
| Paul de Weerd <we...@weirdnet.nl> writes:
| 
| > Not exactly what you're looking for, but I have a startech.com 2 Port
| > SATA 6Gbps PCI Express eSATA controller card [1].  I use this to
| > (occasionally) connect an external disk shelve (using a port
| > multiplier) to my machine.
| 
| Incidentally, does OpenBSD support hot-plugging external drive on eSATA
| ports?

Not that I'm aware of.  I've never tried (or had the need, with my
specific setup).

| I had a similar StarTech card and it worked fine if the external drive
| was attached and powered up at boot but did not recognize it if attached
| later. But was probably around 6.1 release if not older the last time I
| tried that.

I don't think anything has changed in this regard, nothing that has
been committed suggested adding support for hot swapping (e)SATA
devices.

Cheers,

Paul

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