Re: eSATA removable drive

2010-07-18 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 07/11/2010 08:07 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote: > > All those marked settings look wrong to me. I guess HAL rules could > fix this. Surely I'm not the first to hit this problem. I think those are read-only values from the kernel. I don't think there's anything you can do to add the "eject" c

Re: eSATA removable drive

2010-07-12 Thread John Austin
On Sun, 2010-07-11 at 23:07 -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote: > | From: D. Hugh Redelmeier > | Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2010 15:23:17 -0400 (EDT) > > This is a bit old. Here's the start of thread in the archives: > > > | I have an

Re: eSATA removable drive

2010-07-11 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
| From: D. Hugh Redelmeier | Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2010 15:23:17 -0400 (EDT) This is a bit old. Here's the start of thread in the archives: | I have an eSATA external hard drive case. I want to hotplug / unplug it. | | My sy

Re: eSATA removable drive

2010-04-07 Thread John Austin
On Tue, 2010-04-06 at 22:05 -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote: > | From: Rick Stevens > > | The problem is that the controller you've plugged into (the one on > | the motherboard) is not designed for "hotswap" devices. It's expecting > | a hard-installed drive and thus doesn't have the eject suppo

Re: eSATA removable drive

2010-04-06 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
| From: Rick Stevens | The problem is that the controller you've plugged into (the one on | the motherboard) is not designed for "hotswap" devices. It's expecting | a hard-installed drive and thus doesn't have the eject support NOR does | it have necessary power supply glitch protection since i

Re: eSATA removable drive

2010-04-06 Thread Rick Stevens
On 04/06/2010 02:08 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote: > | From: John Austin > > | Hi > | > | I have used hotplug hard drives for some time but never used eject > > What do you do to safely remove the disk? Surely unmount and swapoff, > as applicable, but how do you tell the system that the actual driv

Re: eSATA removable drive

2010-04-06 Thread John Austin
On Tue, 2010-04-06 at 17:08 -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote: > | From: John Austin > > | Hi > | > | I have used hotplug hard drives for some time but never used eject > > What do you do to safely remove the disk? Surely unmount and swapoff, > as applicable, but how do you tell the system that

Re: eSATA removable drive

2010-04-06 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
| From: John Austin | Hi | | I have used hotplug hard drives for some time but never used eject What do you do to safely remove the disk? Surely unmount and swapoff, as applicable, but how do you tell the system that the actual drive is going away? That's what I use "eject" for in several cas

Re: eSATA removable drive

2010-04-06 Thread John Austin
On Tue, 2010-04-06 at 15:23 -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote: > I have an eSATA external hard drive case. I want to hotplug / unplug it. > > My system is Fedora 11. > > I added an external eSATA port on my desktop computer by adding a bracket > (with an internal cable connected to one of the ord

eSATA removable drive

2010-04-06 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
I have an eSATA external hard drive case. I want to hotplug / unplug it. My system is Fedora 11. I added an external eSATA port on my desktop computer by adding a bracket (with an internal cable connected to one of the ordinary SATA sockets on the motherboard.) The SATA controller is an intel