Reminds me that I haven't cabled my optical drive in years…
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@lanodan
I'm temped to do the same, but I still use it about once every month or so, and I hate the idea of having to randomly shut down my PC just to plug the damn thing in. I should get an external USB optical drive.
@alyx Uh, sata is hotplug.
@lanodan
I remember seeing a Linus video on hotswap PCIe... and it didn't work at all. And we're not talking about consumer MB, pretty sure it was server grade stuff.
@lanodan
I'll give the the hotplug sata another try... maybe last time it was a fluke.
@alyx I think it's more like a software issue but I'll try grabbing that video
@lanodan
Well.. bios is technically software, so yeah, the conclusion at the time was that the bios wasn't stable at the time. Don't think he's made a follow-up video on the technology since then. Maybe there are MB out there that are now capable of PCIe hotswap.
@alyx Video I found from linus was https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YigN2mkQMPc and it seems to work after fiddling into the BIOS (which isn't that awkward, I needed to for USB to work nicely on my previous MB…)
Seems like it's experimental, wouldn't risk my new AM4 mobo but it's nice that it could start being an option when NVMe is a thing.
Seems like it's experimental, wouldn't risk my new AM4 mobo but it's nice that it could start being an option when NVMe is a thing.
I basically only reboot for hardware changes like the GPU, even if that shouldn't even be needed since PCIe also has hotplug capabilities.