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

[Russell Howe]

On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 03:39:33PM +0000, Christian Smith wrote:
> SATA connectors are designed to be hot-pluggable, so this is a deliberate 
> design decision.

Yes, but internal SATA connectors are only rated for a few tens of
plug/unplug cycles, or so I've been told.

No, I don't have any citations for that random factoid, sorry :)

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