Has anyone successfully set up a hot-pluggable hard drive under Linux here? The point is to have off-site backup volumes in units of 120Gb :-)
I've been playing with an IDE to USB2 unit, and trying to store about 50+Gb onto it, at reasonable speeds. With EHCI drivers (under 2.6.0-test11) it all seems to play happily, but then eventually the disk dies - writes to it block indefinately, and if the disk is umounted, it cannot be remounted (/dev/sda1 is not a valid block device). Power cycling the disk generally allows it to re-attach, but it still dies after use ... With only UHCI drivers, I get under 1Mbps transfer speed, which is too painful. Any details of a working configuration would give me hope ... -jim
