On 1/2/07, Garl Grigsby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <snip>
on plugging this into the SATA port on the motherboard. I just need to understand what I need to do to make the drive 'visible' to the OS once I've plugged it in. Will the OS 'see' it automagically or do I have to 'scan' for it. If I do have to initiate something, then what? Documentation on this seems vague at best.
It depends on what distro you are running. Ubuntu will generally "automagically" mount any new volumes that appear (using a melange of hotplug, HAL, and DBUS), as do most other modern distros. If not, a normal mount command should do the trick. ie- mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/hot_drive
> When you pull the drive make sure it is unmounted. Then remove the > drive so that it is disconnected from the back plane of the drive > cage. Wait 3 or 4 minutes the drive should have stopped spinning > after 2 minutes and then remove the drive. Is this to prevent physical damage to the drive (spinning head + motion = bad)? I'm just asking because I have a nasty habit of unplugging a USB hard drive and just running with it (after unmounting it of course)
Most modern drives (especially 2.5" drives, fwiw) have mechanisms in them that cause the heads to park within a fraction of a second once they lose power. Some 2.5" drives even have accelerometers in them that will force the heads to park if the G's on the drive get to be too great. That's the important part, parked heads, not spinning platters. Once the heads are parked, it doesn't matter much if the drive is jostled, as there is nothing to bonk against the platters. Will waiting a couple minutes make sure the disks have stopped spinning and the heads are parked? Yes. Is waiting those couple extra minutes overly paranoid? Probably. Is that time worth it? Only you know for sure... -- -Regards- -Quentin Hartman- _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
