On Friday 21 April 2006 15:46, "Sieb, Glenn E (Glenn)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about '[gentoo-user] Hotpluggable SATA question...': > In Gentoo they show as being SCSI, fine, no problem with that.
That's the same across all linuxes. > If I hotplug a drive into the chassis--it powers up, but Gentoo doesn't > see it until reboot. That because it's using the SCSI subsystem in linux. That subsystem was never designed to handle hotpluging. After you add a device to the system, you have to 'echo "scsi add-single-device <controller> <bus/chain> <target/id> <lun>" > /proc/scsi/scsi'. It is left as an exercise for the reader to detemine the correct values for the 4 variables. > Has anyone else used hotpluggable SATA drives in Gentoo 2006.0? Is there > some mysterious package I need to emerge for this to work right? From what I understand: There are kernel changes required to get SCSI hotplug (and SATA hotplug) to work "hands free". They are in development, but there's no ETA for when they will be supported. -- "If there's one thing we've established over the years, it's that the vast majority of our users don't have the slightest clue what's best for them in terms of package stability." -- Gentoo Developer Ciaran McCreesh
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