Re: Building new Athlon AMD64 Socket 939 or 940 machine

From: Martin Cracauer <cracauer_at_cons.org>
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 10:39:14 -0500
Søren Schmidt wrote on Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 04:30:53PM +0100: 
> Martin Cracauer wrote:
> 
> >>That used to work on my MSI nf4 board on 6.0 forward.
> > 
> > 
> > Can I safely test this by just plugging in a SATA cable with drive and
> > board on?
> 
> define safely ?

Very small chance to damage port or disk.  The smallest SATA drive I
have is 400 GB so I wouldn't like to risk it, not to mention my best
board. 

While SATA seems to have been designed with hot-plug capabilities in
mind, it is unclear to me whether the normal SATA cabeling is actually
implementing this.  The cables seem to be designed to reliably connect
ground first when plugging in, so the answer might be yes.  I thought
you might know.

Martin
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