Question How to make AHCI SATA sockets hot-pluggable

[Sebastian42]

The Gigabyte motherboard of my old PC has 10 SATA sockets. I have them all set to AHCI, so can hotplug harddrives from #1 to #8 [connect a HDD and it appears in File Explorer]. #9 and #10 allow booting, so are functional, but do not 'allow hotplugging' although the AHCI option had been set. Can I make them hotpluggable somehow ?

 

[mxnerd]

Probably not if the BIOS / controller does not support it, it's very likely port #9, #10 is on different SATA controller.

I have an ECS Z97-PK (just 4 years old) motherboard and I had no way to make the SATA drives hot pluggable even though BIOS has been set to use AHCI, even though it's INTEL Z97 chipset.

 

[lionhuman]

what is that mean hot pluggable ????

 

[LTC8K6]

what is that mean hot pluggable ????

You can leave the computer on when you plug or unplug a drive or device. The system will just recognize that a device has been added or removed.

Server systems, for example, are usually more "hot swap" / "hot plug" capable because they are almost never shut down. So they are made so that many of the components can be swapped out on the fly.