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From: Michal Soltys <soltys@ziu.info>
Subject: Re: Question on hotplug SATA controllers
Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2008 09:20:17 +0200
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Peter Rabbitson wrote:
> Apologies for yet another off-topic thread :)
> 
> 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
> 

Everything intel since ich7, as well as, SIIs JMicron, Promises supports 
hotplug out of the box in modern linux (generally -  most of the 
hardware working under ahci driver in your linux).