On 10/06/11 10:41, Dave Howorth wrote:
Koenraad Lelong wrote:
According to the manual of the drive e-sata is not plug-and-play. The computer must be shut down to add or remove the drive. That sounds rather weird since as I understand it the difference between a SATA plug and an e-SATA one is that the power is incorporated in such a way as to guarantee good behaviour when hot plugging.
What exactly does the manual say?
Cheers, Dave
e-SATA doesn't carry power. The only difference between SATA and e-SATA is a different type of connector designed to be more robust for repeated insertion/removal, and more shielding on the cables so longer lengths are possible(?). I have always had to reboot to get e-SATA disks recognized on Linux. Works (sometimes) on Windows. Haven't spent time debugging the issue, even though all sata disks should be hotpluggable (?). To the OP, autofs / udev sound like the way to go. Regards, Tejas -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org