From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 26 00:11:39 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 185AE1065674 for ; Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:11:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from des@des.no) Received: from tim.des.no (tim.des.no [194.63.250.121]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D570D8FC08 for ; Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:11:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from des@des.no) Received: from ds4.des.no (des.no [84.49.246.2]) by smtp.des.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id E860C6D43F; Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:11:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ds4.des.no (Postfix, from userid 1001) id CD72684479; Wed, 26 Nov 2008 01:11:37 +0100 (CET) From: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= To: "Peter Steele" References: <2ACA3DE8F9758A48B8BE2C7A847F91F240CD5E@polaris.maxiscale.com> Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 01:11:37 +0100 In-Reply-To: <2ACA3DE8F9758A48B8BE2C7A847F91F240CD5E@polaris.maxiscale.com> (Peter Steele's message of "Tue, 25 Nov 2008 08:53:20 -0800") Message-ID: <86hc5vny6e.fsf@ds4.des.no> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hot swapping SATA drives X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:11:39 -0000 "Peter Steele" writes: > I've done some searches regarding FreeBSD's 7 support for the hot > swapping of SATA drives and the general consensus appears that it *is* > supported, but not necessarily with all drive models/brands. Make sure the SATA controller is running in AHCI mode. It is disabled by default on most consumer-grade motherboards. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no