Hot-plugging an SATA drive?

[djnes]

Has anyone ever tried plugging in an internal SATA drive while the system is up and running? I know on some AMD chipsets, the SATA drives showed up as hot-swappable, but I am using an Intel 915 chipset board. If not, I'll just wait until my lunch break when I can shut down the machine and add it in.

 

[Slartibartfast]

I would check out the mobo's documentation. I know a lot of server boards support SATA hotswap, and I think my old crappy chaintech mobo did too, but that was on a ULi chipset.

 

[CompuDrew]

I believe hot swap is part of the SATAII specification so if your motherboard supports SATAII it will work, but I'm not positive.

 

[Boyo]

Not sure on an Intel system, but I would wait to turn off the rig to be on the safe side.

 

[Lamont Cranston]

why dont u try it and tell us how it comes out