RE: External eSATA drive doesn't fdisk properly ? F8 eSATA hotplug ?

2008-10-01 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>How do I find out what host a device is running on ? > >Thanks Well, using the 2.4 kernel method of /proc, on a small server exporting some iSCSI targets here, I get this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# #cat /proc/scsi/scsi Attached devices: Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00 Vendor: ATA Model

RE: External eSATA drive doesn't fdisk properly ? F8 eSATA hotplug ?

2008-10-01 Thread Linuxguy123
On Mon, 2008-09-29 at 18:27 -0600, Joseph L. Casale wrote: > >I've got a new laptop with an eSATA port and a new (unformatted) eSATA > >external hard drive. > > > >Is eSATA hot plug compatible with a stock F8 kernel ? > > Good question, and I don't know but I wonder if helping it find it might w

Re: External eSATA drive doesn't fdisk properly ? F8 eSATA hotplug ?

2008-09-29 Thread linux guy
Interesting tidbit... the external drive has 2 interfaces. USB and eSATA. I just mounted the drive and formatted it via USB without any problems. Now hwbrowser doesn't crash when the drive is connected via eSATA. But the drive doesn't appear in eSATA either. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-l

Re: External eSATA drive doesn't fdisk properly ? F8 eSATA hotplug ?

2008-09-29 Thread Ed Greshko
Ed Greshko wrote: > Joseph L. Casale wrote: > >>> So why does hwbrowser stall with the external drive ? >>> >>> >> Don't know, maybe its broken? Did you try to initiate a (re)scan of >> the applicable bus manually and then enumerate it with fdisk? >> >> >> > I suppose the fir

Re: External eSATA drive doesn't fdisk properly ? F8 eSATA hotplug ?

2008-09-29 Thread Ed Greshko
Joseph L. Casale wrote: >> So why does hwbrowser stall with the external drive ? >> > > Don't know, maybe its broken? Did you try to initiate a (re)scan of > the applicable bus manually and then enumerate it with fdisk? > > I suppose the first thing I would do is to boot the system without

RE: External eSATA drive doesn't fdisk properly ? F8 eSATA hotplug ?

2008-09-29 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>So why does hwbrowser stall with the external drive ? Don't know, maybe its broken? Did you try to initiate a (re)scan of the applicable bus manually and then enumerate it with fdisk? -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedo

Re: External eSATA drive doesn't fdisk properly ? F8 eSATA hotplug ?

2008-09-29 Thread linux guy
My laptop has the Intel 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) SATA AHCI Controller. (hwbrowser) According to http://linux-ata.org/driver-status.html, Linux supports full hotplug for this chipset. = AHCI (newer Intel ICH, ULi, others) Driver name: ahci Summary

Re: External eSATA drive doesn't fdisk properly ? F8 eSATA hotplug ?

2008-09-29 Thread linux guy
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 8:27 PM, Joseph L. Casale <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > >I've got a new laptop with an eSATA port and a new (unformatted) eSATA > external hard drive. > > > >Is eSATA hot plug compatible with a stock F8 kernel ? > > Good question, and I don't know but I wonder if helping it

RE: External eSATA drive doesn't fdisk properly ? F8 eSATA hotplug ?

2008-09-29 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>I've got a new laptop with an eSATA port and a new (unformatted) eSATA >external hard drive. > >Is eSATA hot plug compatible with a stock F8 kernel ? Good question, and I don't know but I wonder if helping it find it might work. Figure out what host# that interface is on, then issue this: #echo

External eSATA drive doesn't fdisk properly ? F8 eSATA hotplug ?

2008-09-29 Thread linux guy
I've got a new laptop with an eSATA port and a new (unformatted) eSATA external hard drive. Is eSATA hot plug compatible with a stock F8 kernel ? $ uname -a Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.26.3-14.fc8 #1 SMP Wed Sep 3 03:40:05 EDT 2008 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux $ /sbin/lsmod | grep sat sata_sil24