An apparatus includes a partitionable data storage medium and control electronics. The control electronics includes a hot-pluggable connection with a bus. The control electronics receives a RESET command from a host while the bus is energized, and dynamically re-maps the data storage medium to provide M active partitions, where M is dynamically controllable by the host.

 
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