david <da...@kenpro.com.au> writes:
>>> (Admittedly, the last is only on really bad hardware, but hey, that
>>> hardware is out there and still within the reasonable life of machines
>>> for home users.)
>>>
>>> Anyway, once the hardware doesn't die completely you still need the
>>> driver stack to notice and remove the now absent hardware from the
>>> software "shadow" representation.
>>
>> Crap controllers are just that - crap ;-)
>
> Returning to the original inquiry, and now that I know that I have a
> 82801GB/GR/GH (ICH7 Family) SATA IDE Controller (Intel) How do I go
> about finding out if it's safe to hot-swap?
Did you try the libata status report page I posted the link to a while
back? That should confirm that your ICH7 supports hotplug.
Regards,
Daniel
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