On 08/16/2010 08:43 AM, Nataraj wrote:
Geoffrey Leach wrote:
On 07/22/2010 08:37:00 AM, Linuxguy123 wrote:
I am wondering how ESATA devices are supposed to work in F13 these days.
Does F13 support hot plugging of ESATA devices ? Are they only recognized at boot time ? Are they supported at all ?
No problem at all. One caution - I don't run nautilis, so there may be an issue there.
From reading this, it seems that this is dependant upon the hardware and which driver gets used. https://ata.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Hardware,_driver_status
Nataraj
On my laptop, I have external drives connected via esata to my pcmcia esata adapter. I can unmount the drives and unplug them and re-plug them and re-mount them while system is up. Ditto with USB drives. The sata ports on a motherboard are no different. I am not so sure about PATA though. I thought those have to be detected at boot only. Hot swapping PATA (IDE) drives could lock up or crash your system.