On 8/1/06, Roger Oberholtzer
On Mon, 2006-07-31 at 18:51 -0400, Greg Freemyer wrote:
On 7/31/06, Roger Oberholtzer
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.bz... Greg -- Greg Freemyer The Norcross Group Forensics for the 21st Century