On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 12:28:27AM +0100, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
On 30/10/10 14:30, Chris G wrote:
I've done a bit of Google'ing and there doesn't seem to be a very consistent result, I've found everyting from "doesn't work at all" to "works perfectly, just pops up when plugged in". I've searched for it specifically with Ubuntu 10.04 as that's what I'm using.
Has anyone here had success (or otherwise) with hot-plugging eSata disks?
esata has been working perfectly with hot plug here, a default security policy on the box means that as the disk is considered an "internal" one rather than an external I have to supply the sudo password to mount it. But other than that it just works.
I have had the disk working on another system but I can't remember whether that was hot-plugged or present at power up. I will try rebooting the dekstop with the eSata powered and connected to see if it works then but I really want to be able to hot-plug it.
What happens in /var/log/messages when you plug the device in...is it even recognised there ?
Absolutely nothing at all, I can't find *anything* that happens anywhere in /var/log when I plug in the eSata drive. So there's not much chance it's going to be hot-pluggable is there.
It's not a big deal, I can just reboot the system when I plug it in, it's recognised perfectly OK then. I'm aiming to use it as a way of moving very large lumps of data from one system to another (like 100Gb chunks) so having to restart systems occasionally to do it isn't a big problem.