On 30/10/10 16:34, Anthony Anson wrote:
Not with hot-plugging ones AFAIK, but I have found that with the Eee (or maybe with Xandros, or just Xandros running on an Eee) that sometimes, after removing a device (properly), USB is totally usless until the box is rebooted.
Yes but we aren't talking about USB mass storage here so your results aren't all that relevant. esata goes in by exactly the same mechanism as the internal disk not USB external ones.
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.
The destructions should tell you if you can.
Most if not all SATA chipsets and drives should support hotplug. Whether or not it is supported by the specific SATA chipset on linux is another matter.