Is it possible to hot-plug an external HDD via eSata?

Question

Iron

Introduction (optional reading).
I have been using the eSata connector for a long time, but I realized that I had enough. And all because of the fact that
1) it is impossible to connect it to a hot
2) if the external HDD is disconnected, then the BIOS will be initialized exactly 1 minute longer, trying to stubbornly poll these same eSata ports (what for, if the disk is disabled?)
3) but the full disabling eSata support in the BIOS causes a BSOD.
For these reasons, I kept external hard drives on all the time for a long time, even though I needed them at most 2 times a month. But for some reason, now for the first time, I suddenly wondered: why did I get that these are problems of technology as a whole? Maybe the problem is just me?
What do we have.
Pay:Gigabyte GA-P67-UD5-B3 (eSata chipset - Marvell 88SE9128)
External HDD: WD MyBook 2tb RAID0
System: Win7x64
BIOS version: F7
AHCI eSata mode
: Enabled
How to identify the cause of a non-working hotplug? Should it even work?

Answer 1

sata mode how is AHCI enabled in bios?

Answer 2

Disconnect / connect eSata to a hot one, there have never been any problems. Neither in Win7 (x64 Prof), nor in Linux (Arch Linux + KDE), and BIOS the same amount of time is initialized with or without them.

Answer 3

Well, who cares, in principle, in my BIOS, you can cut down the hot connection, but the point is, everything changes to hot. Up to the fact that the screws and on the usual sata I change to a hot one.

Answer 4

I have an eSata disk connected to a hot one, the BIOS is initialized the same way with it and without it. It looks like you're the only one with the problem.

Answer 5

This is definitely your problem. Wiki .