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Subject: Re: Building new Athlon AMD64 Socket 939 or 940 machine
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Martin Cracauer wrote:
> Søren Schmidt wrote on Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 04:30:53PM +0100: 
> 
>>Martin Cracauer wrote:
>>
>>
>>>>That used to work on my MSI nf4 board on 6.0 forward.
>>>
>>>
>>>Can I safely test this by just plugging in a SATA cable with drive and
>>>board on?
>>
>>define safely ?
> 
> 
> Very small chance to damage port or disk.  The smallest SATA drive I
> have is 400 GB so I wouldn't like to risk it, not to mention my best
> board. 
> 
> While SATA seems to have been designed with hot-plug capabilities in
> mind, it is unclear to me whether the normal SATA cabeling is actually
> implementing this.  The cables seem to be designed to reliably connect
> ground first when plugging in, so the answer might be yes.  I thought
> you might know.

That should be perfectly safe yes. The SATA connector was designed with 
this in mind including the power connector.
However, some SATA drives also has the old 4 pin power connector, that 
one is by no definition safe to hotplug...

-Søren