RabbieBurns Posted May 25, 2009 Posted May 25, 2009 Ive got one of these: Silicon Image Products - SiI3512 - PCI to 2 Port SATA150 on that page it says "Hot-Plug capable" - does that mean I can plug a HD into the PCI card while the machine is turned on? At the moment I cant get the system to boot when a HD is plugged into the card. The OS (gentoo) lists the card OK in lspci once its booted. I was just wondering if I can try plugging in a HD to it once Ive got the machine booted?
powdarrmonkey Posted May 25, 2009 Posted May 25, 2009 Ive got one of these: Silicon Image Products - SiI3512 - PCI to 2 Port SATA150 on that page it says "Hot-Plug capable" - does that mean I can plug a HD into the PCI card while the machine is turned on? At the moment I cant get the system to boot when a HD is plugged into the card. The OS (gentoo) lists the card OK in lspci once its booted. I was just wondering if I can try plugging in a HD to it once Ive got the machine booted? Yes, provided both drive and controller will support hot-swapping.
Chris_Jones Posted May 26, 2009 Posted May 26, 2009 check you have the most up to date firmware for the card, I had a similar problem with another Sil chipset where it wouldnt boot when drives were connected that I solved by updating the firmware. 1
RabbieBurns Posted May 26, 2009 Author Posted May 26, 2009 thanks, will investigate. See my other thread though ("strange hardware problem"), as the card used to work fine, and then stopped.
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