On Mon, 2010-08-16 at 09:01 -0700, JD wrote: > The sata ports on a motherboard are no different. Not always correct. Internal ports will not be expected to have to deal with hotplugging, and may not support it. (You've heard of manufacturers cutting corners, and not adhering to specifications, before?) The host has to support it. > I am not so sure about PATA though. I thought those have > to be detected at boot only. Hot swapping PATA (IDE) drives > could lock up or crash your system. Or electrically damage it. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines