I'm not sure what you mean by "regular", but your controller will need to support hot swap if you want it to work properly/reliably. I would recommend a hot swap enclosure too. On 9/8/05, Jon Schewe <jpschewe at mtu.net> wrote: > > Has anyone tried this with a regular SATA card, mine is a Promise TX-4? I > was wondering if I could just open up my case and plug in a SATA drive to my > extra power and data cables while the system is live (since SATA is supposed > to have this hot-swap ability) and get Linux to recognize the drive. > > ------------------------------ > > Jon Schewe | http://mtu.net/~jpschewe <http://mtu.net/%7Ejpschewe> > GPG signature at http://mtu.net/~jpschewe/gpg.sig.html<http://mtu.net/%7Ejpschewe/gpg.sig.html> > For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels > nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any > powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all > creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that > is in Christ Jesus our Lord. - Romans 8:38-39 > > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20050908/362caaef/attachment.htm