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From: Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>
To: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Anybody know about nforce4 SATA II hot swapping + linux raid?
Date: Sat, 08 Oct 2005 13:09:13 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <43481959.2080807@shaw.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4VnSe-hv-15@gated-at.bofh.it>

Molle Bestefich wrote:
> IDE hotswap has never worked (OOTB at least) in Linux, and based on my
> experience it never will.  Seems the IDE folks doesn't care a bit
> about it.  (No offence meant.  Just keeping it real.)

If you mean IDE as in PATA, it's not supported in the kernel because 
PATA hardware does not generally support hotswap, the controllers and 
drives are not designed for it.

SATA is very different in regards to hardware capabilities and kernel 
support for hotswap..

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Robert Hancock      Saskatoon, SK, Canada
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       reply	other threads:[~2005-10-08 19:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <4UXuH-EU-31@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found] ` <4VhD6-79H-7@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]   ` <4VnSe-hv-15@gated-at.bofh.it>
2005-10-08 19:09     ` Robert Hancock [this message]
     [not found] ` <4XLQk-6Z2-1@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]   ` <4XMt3-7Yt-5@gated-at.bofh.it>
2005-10-15  6:29     ` Anybody know about nforce4 SATA II hot swapping + linux raid? Robert Hancock
2005-10-18 22:35       ` Bill Davidsen
2005-10-08 19:16 Allen Martin
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-10-07 10:11 Andrew Walrond
2005-10-08  7:41 ` Tejun Heo
2005-10-08 14:26   ` Molle Bestefich
2005-10-08 14:55     ` Andrew Walrond
2005-10-08 15:01       ` Lukasz Kosewski
2005-10-08 15:52         ` Andrew Walrond
2005-10-10 17:47         ` Ken Hwang
2005-10-08 15:23       ` Gordon Henderson
2005-10-08 16:03         ` Andrew Walrond
2005-10-08 16:08       ` John Stoffel
2005-10-08 16:39         ` Andrew Walrond
2005-10-15  4:24 ` Bill Davidsen
2005-10-15  5:06   ` Lajber Zoltan

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