On Wed, 6 May 2009, Randall R Schulz wrote:-
On Wednesday May 6 2009, Larry Stotler wrote:
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I hate to point out the obvious, but can you hook this drive directly to a SATA port on the machine? That way you can get direct access. It could be a problem with the partitioning.
SATA is not intended for hot-plugging.
All SATA devices are designed to support hot-plugging, but whether you can or can't relies on the SATA chipset driver having support for it. As long as you the data cable before pulling the power cable from the drive, and the chipset driver supports it, there should be no issues. More info is available here: <URL:http://linux-ata.org/software-status.html> <URL:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SATA> <URL:http://ata.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Libata_Feature_Table> However, I can honestly say I've never actually tried it on any of my systems that do support it. The only time I tried was on a 9.3 system, with a kernel version 2.6.11.4, and that doesn't have the required support built in. Kernels with versions 2.6.19 or above, which means those supplied with 10.3 or later, should support it. Regards, David Bolt -- Team Acorn: http://www.distributed.net/ OGR-NG @ ~100Mnodes RC5-72 @ ~1Mkeys/s openSUSE 10.3 32b | openSUSE 11.0 32b | | openSUSE 10.3 64b | openSUSE 11.0 64b | openSUSE 11.1 64b | openSUSE 10.3 PPC | RISC OS 3.6 | RISC OS 3.11 | TOS 4.02 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org