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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: sata coldplug?
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 13:30:18 -0500
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Dieter St=FCken wrote:
> Jeff Garzik wrote:
>=20
>> Seems like the hotplug code is triggering....
>=20
>=20
> apropos:
>=20
> will "coldplug" be possible some day?
>=20
> The FAQ says:
>  ... some SATA controllers will never support hotplug
>=20
> I never want to relay on any kind of "hotplug", but may
> be I want to drop some drive from the system, after an
> regular umount; or I want to put in some additional disk
> while the system is running. This would be very usefull
> for LVM, too. I found some hints about how to to do that
> for SCSI disks, but this did not work properly for SATA :(
>=20
> Will/is it possible for SATA, too?

Eventually for all controllers except Intel ICH5/6 (ata_piix), yes.

	Jeff