Talk:Serial ATA

Hot swap is only universally supported under something like SAS, to my knowledge. 143.182.124.4 19:04, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

As of my own experience, there are special SATA controllers out there that allow hot swapping; however the problem is that not just the controller needs to support it, the Operating System does, too. Linux kernels got hot-swap support as of 2.6.18, I think. Usually such controllers support the faster SATA standard, and also do native command queueing. As for SAS, this is an upwards compatibility, not a downwards one. SATA drives work on SAS controllers; SAS drives are useless on SATA controllers. -- Eptalon 20:19, 11 December 2006 (UTC)