Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3232 mails)

["Greg Freemyer" <greg.freemyer@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 8/1/06, Roger Oberholtzer <roger@xxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-07-31 at 18:51 -0400, Greg Freemyer wrote:
> > On 7/31/06, Roger Oberholtzer <roger@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Of course hot swapping SATA disks is not currently supported in Linux.
> > > As such, udevmonitor reports nothing when the disks are inserted or
> > > removed on a system that does support this at the hardware level. There
> > > is work in libata, but nothing functioning for use in a production
> > > system.
> >
> > Not sure how "production" you need it to be.
> >
> > The 2.6.17 kernel has been out for a couple months I think.
>
> Wonder if it works with intel chipsets (ahci). I installed 2.6.17.7, and
> still did not see udev activity. Maybe it is only working for certain
> chip sets. Not much in the Docs in the kernel source.
>
> Oh well. Back to plan A: a script.
>
> Any suggestions on the best way to get the system to rescan for sata
> drives? I used to have something that used /proc/scsi. But isn't that
> going away?

Sorry, not really any ideas for the script, but for 2.6.17.7 you have
to have both the vanilla kernel from kernel.org and you have to apply
the patch from

http://home-tj.org/files/libata-tj-stable/libata-tj-2.6.17.4-20060710.tar.bz2

Greg
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Greg Freemyer
The Norcross Group
Forensics for the 21st Century