Re: Hot Swapping a SATA drive in Windows 2000 and XP.

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From: Nathan McNulty (nospam_at_msn.com)
Date: 09/13/04 

Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 11:02:19 -0700

Thanks for the update :)

Another great thing is that ALL of the SATA300 PCI-E cards I have seen
all support hot swap fully. Hopefully this time around they won't have
some that partly work, or don't support it at all. 

----
Nathan McNulty
Chris S wrote:
> Another tidbit:
> 
> On the product page for an addonics external drive 
> http://www.addonics.com/products/combo_hdd/aechdsa35-r.asp
> they have this comment and footnote:
> 
> "... 
> Hot swappable (1), hard drive can be removed or add to the system
> without restarting* 
> 
> (1) Serial ATA hot swap feature works only with controllers basing on
> Silicon Image chip set from our inhouse testing. Other controllers
> that are not Silicon Image based may not support hot swap. ... New
> controllers from Intel and other suppliers may finally correct the
> problem. ..." 
> 
> And that's exactly what I've found ... using my Silicon Image-based
> Adaptec SATA card, I can hot swap; using my promise-based Maxtor SATA
> card, I cannot. Postings here also confirm that some intel chipsets
> support hot swap now too. 
> 
> I'll continue testing and researching this. 
> 
> 
> 
> On Sat, 11 Sep 2004 23:39:00 GMT, Chris S <cschofie@nospam.home.com>
> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Well, finally some good news to report!  
> 
> 
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