From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Othmar Pasteka Subject: Re: Serial ATA (SATA) for Linux status report Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2003 00:49:07 +0100 Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20031203234907.GA4184@tron.at> References: <20031203204445.GA26987@gtf.org> <1070494030.15415.111.camel@slurv.pasop.tomt.net> <3FCE737C.1080105@pobox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from h081217022198.dyn.cm.kabsi.at ([81.217.22.198]:29825 "EHLO botticelli.tron.priv.at") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262375AbTLCXtJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Dec 2003 18:49:09 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3FCE737C.1080105@pobox.com> List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Jeff Garzik Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org hi, On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 06:36:28PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Alas, there is no hotplug support in the ICH5 or ICH5-R SATA hardware. > > One could argue there is "coldplug" support in that hardware -- disable > the entire interface, including any active devices, then re-enable and > re-scan -- but it's a bit of a hack. If there's enough demand, I could > write some code for that. It would involve something like > > # /sbin/sata off > { plug in or remove a device } > # /sbin/sata on > > You really, really, really don't want to actually unplug a SATA drive > while it's active, on ICH5 hardware. are there chipsets which support SATA hot plugging? afaik sata is supposed to be hotplugable. TIA Othmar Pasteka