Eksoterikoi SATA

[Nick Demou]

2008/6/6 Antonis Christofides <anthony at itia.ntua.gr>:
> On Friday 06 June 2008 12:22:56 V13 wrote:
>> Giati oxi USB? Eite me USB diskoys, eite me adaptor.
>> Etsi den tha mplekseis kai me themata toy SATA controller kai toy driver toy
>> sxetika me to hot-plugging.
>
> Α, δηλαδή το hot-plugging στο SATA δεν είναι τόσο απλή υπόθεση όσο στο
> USB;

γενικά:

Unlike PATA, both SATA and eSATA are designed to support hot-swapping.
However, this feature requires proper support at the host, device
(drive), and operating-system level. In general, all SATA/devices
(drives) support hot-swapping (due to the requirements on the
device-side), but requisite support is less common on SATA host
adapters.[citation needed]
  -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_ATA

ειδικά για Linux:

==Hotplug support==
libata supports both controller hotplug ("yank the card") and device
hotplug ("yank the drive").
Most SATA controllers are hotplug-capable, if your system bus (PCI,
etc.) is also hotplug-capable. All SATA devices are hotplug-capable.
The following SATA controllers will never support hotplug: Intel
ICH5-8 (non-AHCI), Pacific Digital Talon (ADMA), Promise SATA SX4.
  -- http://linux-ata.org/software-status.html#hotplug