[BBLISA] Recommended hot-plug eSATA PCI cards?
Dewey Sasser
dewey at sasser.com
Sun Apr 11 07:04:41 EDT 2010
On 4/10/2010 5:26 PM, Dean Anderson wrote:
> I think the hot-plug issue is not in the card, but in kernel support for
> hot-plugging. The linux kernel doesn't (didn't) probe sata devices, and
> while you can unplug a probed drive, it won't recognize a different
> drive. Or at least, it didn't used to.
>
I've hot-pluged SATA drives into my Ubuntu Jaunty 64bit system. I
haven't been so succesful hot unplugging, as the device seems to hang
around after I unplug it.
I haven't experimented with this enough to know if the issues I'm seeing
are hardware or software.
--
Dewey
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