>>1249843>You could try setting a sata port to hotswappable.SATA ports are always hotswappable, this BIOS setting is more like a warning to the OS that this is going to happen. If you're not accessing or mounting anything on the disk, there's no problem hotswapping it without this flag set. Done this a bunch of times to reboot the disk and enable ATA security so I can wipe it.
Obviously, exactly like USB storage( which is also electrically-hotpluggable and also not always logically-hotpluggable), if you do this while the OS is accessing the disk, the OS will become sad. But it's part of the SATA design that you can always do this and it won't damage the hardware.
Pic related, it's a SATA connector. See how all the ground pins are longer: this is so they always mate first and establish an equal ground potential so the power and data connections can safely hotplug.
