[BBLISA] Recommended hot-plug eSATA PCI cards?

[seph]

I thought hotplugging was part of the sata spec. I'd assume it's
software.

seph

Dewey Sasser <dewey at sasser.com> writes:

> On 4/10/2010 5:26 PM, Dean Anderson wrote:
>> I think the hot-plug issue is not in the card, but in kernel support for
>> hot-plugging. The linux kernel doesn't (didn't) probe sata devices, and
>> while you can unplug a probed drive, it won't recognize a different
>> drive. Or at least, it didn't used to.
>>   
>
> I've hot-pluged SATA drives into my Ubuntu Jaunty 64bit system.  I
> haven't been so succesful hot unplugging, as the device seems to hang
> around after I unplug it.
>
> I haven't experimented with this enough to know if the issues I'm seeing
> are hardware or software.
>
> --
> Dewey
>
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