Re: RELENG_7: SATA hotplug does not work

From: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 03:34:39 -0700
On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 12:18:22PM +0200, Ed Schouten wrote:
> * Dmitry Morozovsky <marck_at_rinet.ru> wrote:
> > Well, you may be right (however, I doubt, as IIRC, SATA standard requires 
> > hotplug) 
> 
> As far as I know, this only applies when you use AHCI.

That's true from what I've read too, although nVidia has written some
SATA drivers for Windows which supposedly handle hot-swapping, but it
requires that you set the SATA subsystem in the BIOS to RAID mode.

Our 5015M-T+ servers have Intel AHCI enabled in the BIOS:

atapci1: <Intel ICH7 SATA300 controller> port 0x30e8-0x30ef,0x30dc-0x30df,0x30e0-0x30e7,0x30d8-0x30db,0x30b0-0x30bf mem 0xe0000400-0xe00007ff irq 19 at device 31.2 on pci0
atapci1: AHCI Version 01.10 controller with 4 ports detected

Also, I could have sworn the official SATA specification didn't list or
support hot-swapping until the SATA-II revision.

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