Martin Cracauer wrote: > 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. That should be perfectly safe yes. The SATA connector was designed with this in mind including the power connector. However, some SATA drives also has the old 4 pin power connector, that one is by no definition safe to hotplug... -SørenReceived on Mon Nov 28 2005 - 14:44:51 UTC
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