Can hot-plug a SATA drive?

Does first-generation SATA hot-plug without killing the mobo, the
disk, or both?

I've got a PC with an ASUS A7N8X-Deluxe mobo with SATA on it. It's on
the bench and I have several SATA disks I want to run disk fitness
test on. (The boot/OS disk is IDE.)

Do I have to power-cycle the machine when I hook up one of these
disks?

The PSU has SATA power connectors. Do I hook up power or data first?

The OS is eaith w2k or Linux.






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Previously Al Dykes <adykes.DeleteThis@panix.com> wrote:
> Does first-generation SATA hot-plug without killing the mobo, the
> disk, or both?

You cannot damage the hardware this way. But beware that standard
PC power-plugs are _not_ hot-pluggable, only SATA power plugs are.
Some old SATA disks have both. With the standard PC power plugs
you can kill the disk when hotplugging.

> I've got a PC with an ASUS A7N8X-Deluxe mobo with SATA on it. It's on
> the bench and I have several SATA disks I want to run disk fitness
> test on. (The boot/OS disk is IDE.)

> Do I have to power-cycle the machine when I hook up one of these
> disks?

That may happen, since not all SATA controllers support hotplug.

> The PSU has SATA power connectors. Do I hook up power or data first?

Does not matter.

> The OS is eaith w2k or Linux.

Install the drivers (Linux: in the kernel or as kernel module)
and see whether the disks are found. If not, you need to
power-cycle.

Arno