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...