On Mon, April 16, 2012 3:47 pm, Dale wrote: > J. Roeleveld wrote: >> >> On Sat, April 14, 2012 4:28 pm, Florian Philipp wrote: >> >> <SNIPPED> >> >>> As we are out of rational ideas, have you tried unplugging the old >>> disk? >>> You don't need it for booting at the moment, right? AS SATA is >>> hot-plugin capable, you can re-insert it later. >> >> Be careful here, not all SATA-controllers/ports on mainboards are >> hotplug >> capable. I have a mainboard that becomes really unstable when I try to >> hot(un)plug a harddisk. >> It runs perfectly fine as long as I switch the computer off before >> swapping harddrives. > > According to the manual, mine is. Given my luck, I don't want to try > it. ;-)
If the manual says it is, then probably it will be. I have 2 mainboards I tried it with that don't mention either way for hotswap in the manuals. One gets unstable, the other works perfectly. The last mainboard I bought actually has an option in the BIOS where I can specify per SATA-port which are to support hotswap or not ;) -- Joost
