[Gllug] SATA - new drives and old BIOSes not compatible?

[Christopher Mocock]

Christian Smith wrote:
> SATA connectors are designed to be hot-pluggable, so this is a
> deliberate design decision.

Ah I guess that makes some sense, although I would have thought that
most hotplug scenarios would involve a backplane. So the cables could
have clips but the interface between the disk caddy and the backplane
needn't have.
Still, I think Western Digital have started making cables with clips on,
and 3Ware RAID controllers have multi-lane cables with clips.

Sorry to bang on about it but it's the bane of my life, or one them at
least! :)

Cheers, Chris.
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