Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 16:44:16 +0100 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= <sos@deepcore.dk> To: Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= <sos@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Building new Athlon AMD64 Socket 939 or 940 machine Message-ID: <438B25D0.3050109@deepcore.dk> In-Reply-To: <20051128103914.B31684@cons.org> References: <61FBEC57-424E-450F-A775-10E1F5E8DF92@cian.ws> <20051127215510.A17131@cons.org> <1133190443.41553.18.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk> <438B1F90.3090708@FreeBSD.org> <20051128102626.A31626@cons.org> <438B22AD.2030106@deepcore.dk> <20051128103914.B31684@cons.org>
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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
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