[CentOS] HotPlug, eSATA, and /media

Feizhou feizhou at graffiti.net
Sat Aug 4 00:27:40 UTC 2007


Lamar Owen wrote:
> Ok, got a quickie.
> 
> I have an eSATA drive, a 750GB Seagate in an eSATA external enclosure, and a 
> Silicon Image sil3132 ExpressCard controller for my laptop.  The disk and 
> controller work great in CentOS 5 (or F7, for that matter), if I specifically 
> mount it.
> 
> This is not how I want to have to use this drive, however.  I want to hotplug 
> it; that is, plug the controller into the laptop, and then plug the drive 
> into the controller, and have it come up just like a USB drive would.  It 
> does not currently do that.  Anyone here know how to make an eSATA (or a 
> hotplug SATA mobile slide, for that matter) show up in /media, and have all 
> the nice hotplug capabilities USB drives have?  That is, KDE brings up the 
> dialog asking what to do with the drive, it can be automounted, etc.  Then 
> when going to hot-unplug, I'd use the 'safely remove' context menu entry 
> (just like a USB drive) and it would unmount the drive and unload anything it 
> might need to unload.

Er...it is not treated like USB disks or CDs or DVDs but as a regular 
hard disk.

> 
> Anybody have this working?  If not, i'm going to figure it out, but didn't 
> want to reinvent the wheel.

I guess you will need some scripting...



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