[gentoo-user] Hotswapable Drive

[gentoo-user] Hotswapable Drive

[Florian Philipp]

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Hi!

I'd like to know what's the current best practice to handle a hotswapable 
SATA-drive. It's the optical drive of my Dell Latitude D520 laptop, the so 
called Media Bay.

If I plug it in while the system is online, it is not recognized. Under normal 
circumstances (e.g. coldplugged) it works fine.

Thanks in advance!

Florian Philipp

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Re: [gentoo-user] Hotswapable Drive

[Aleksey V. Kunitskiy]

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On Tuesday 24 July 2007 19:04, Florian Philipp wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I'd like to know what's the current best practice to handle a hotswapable
> SATA-drive. It's the optical drive of my Dell Latitude D520 laptop, the so
> called Media Bay.

I'm using sata hard drive in hot-swap case and it works perfectly. But one 
important thing - I have to turn off disk power first, then I can change it.

HTH

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Re: [gentoo-user] Hotswapable Drive

[Kent Fredric]

On 7/25/07, Florian Philipp <f.philipp@addcom.de> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I'd like to know what's the current best practice to handle a hotswapable
> SATA-drive. It's the optical drive of my Dell Latitude D520 laptop, the so
> called Media Bay.
>
> If I plug it in while the system is online, it is not recognized. Under normal
> circumstances (e.g. coldplugged) it works fine.
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Florian Philipp
>
>


IF your system fails to recognize it on plug you may have an
older/noconformant controller or missing appropriate kernel
modules/drivers to govern them.

Reccommnended Install Procedure
1. Plug in data cable
2. Plug in power cable
3. Check dmesg
4. check /dev/ for new node ( udev should make one )
5. Mount

Removal
1. Unmount
2. Remove power
3. remove data.

( Although For me I think both work, its just I know that the power
connector is the one with all the different pin lengths allowing the
drive to say "ok, see you later" before it powers off )
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Kent
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