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