From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Rabbitson Subject: Question on hotplug SATA controllers Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2008 18:20:48 +0200 Message-ID: <484963E0.4010009@rabbit.us> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids Apologies for yet another off-topic thread :) Since there has been some discussion about not-quite-server grade hardware, I would like to ask about your experience with SATA controllers that fully support hotplug. By fully support I mean I can pull a drive, have udev register it as missing, put it back in - have the device node re-appear in /dev. To date I am not aware of any consumer grade (i.e. can be found on newegg) controller/chipset which can actually do this. Does such a card exist? Thanks Peter