Serial ATA support question

Serial ATA support question

[Patrick Finnegan]

So, I'm considering getting some SATA gear to use in a data storage 
project.  What exactly is the state of hotplug support?  I'm 
considering a Highpoint Tech Rocket 1540 (HPT374 chipset), and it 
claims to support Linux as an OS, but I haven't seen anything on 
mailing lists about use with linux, especially hotswap support.

So, is it possible to hotswap these drives, and have the 
controller/driver detect the new drive? 

Thanks,

Pat
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Update: Serial ATA support question

[Patrick Finnegan]

So, I've got no response, is there a better place to ask this?

On Monday 29 March 2004 14:44, Patrick Finnegan wrote:
> So, I'm considering getting some SATA gear to use in a data storage
> project.  What exactly is the state of hotplug support?  I'm
> considering a Highpoint Tech Rocket 1540 (HPT374 chipset), and it
> claims to support Linux as an OS, but I haven't seen anything on
> mailing lists about use with linux, especially hotswap support.
>
> So, is it possible to hotswap these drives, and have the
> controller/driver detect the new drive?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Pat

Pat
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Re: Update: Serial ATA support question

[Stefan Smietanowski]

Hi Patrick.

> So, I've got no response, is there a better place to ask this?
> 
> On Monday 29 March 2004 14:44, Patrick Finnegan wrote:
> 
>>So, I'm considering getting some SATA gear to use in a data storage
>>project.  What exactly is the state of hotplug support?  I'm
>>considering a Highpoint Tech Rocket 1540 (HPT374 chipset), and it
>>claims to support Linux as an OS, but I haven't seen anything on
>>mailing lists about use with linux, especially hotswap support.
>>
>>So, is it possible to hotswap these drives, and have the
>>controller/driver detect the new drive?

Search the archives.

The 1540 isn't really a SATA controller, it's got (as you state
yourself) a HPT374 PATA controller and (I believe) a Marvel
PATA<->SATA bridge, hence it's not truly a SATA controller
and I can't remember if you can hotswap with it but I somehow doubt it.

There was a document released a while back by Jeff Garzik (I believe)
that outlines all drivers and what they supported. Search for that
in the archives and you'll see.

Sometimes when people don't answer it's because they already answered it
before or it's easily finadable in the archives.

// Stefan