Am Dienstag 24 Juli 2007 22:18 schrieb Kent Fredric: > On 7/25/07, Florian Philipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 ) > -- > Kent
Hi! Sorry for the delay but I had some other stuff to do. Attaching and removing of power and data cables is not possible because I just push the drive into its case or pull it out. dmesg doesn't show anything and udev does not create any new node, neigher does udevstart.
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