Re: Anybody know about nforce4 SATA II hot swapping + linux raid?

[Robert Hancock]

Molle Bestefich wrote:
> IDE hotswap has never worked (OOTB at least) in Linux, and based on my
> experience it never will.  Seems the IDE folks doesn't care a bit
> about it.  (No offence meant.  Just keeping it real.)

If you mean IDE as in PATA, it's not supported in the kernel because 
PATA hardware does not generally support hotswap, the controllers and 
drives are not designed for it.

SATA is very different in regards to hardware capabilities and kernel 
support for hotswap..

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