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Is SATA designed to allow hot plugin of a hard drive? That would surprise me.

• ambrop7 11y ago
  As far as I know, it is an optional feature that both the controller and the drive have to support, to use reliably.
  • dogma1138 11y ago
    And it then needs to be explicitly requested which usually means bypassing the cache to avoid any delayed writes. But even then hotswap was never meant to ensure data consistency it just allows the controller to reinitialize new disks without a full reset.