Jerry Geis wrote: > I have a two external USB drives only 1 is connected to centos 5.1 at a > time. > the USB drive is SLOW compared to SATA. > The external drive suppots both connections USB and SATA. > > I bought a little $5 external SATA connector that goes into the > PCI slot area (does not actually take a PCI slot just the backpanel) > and just plugs back into one of the available SATA > ports on the motherboard. > > When I turn off the external drive and put the other drive on > the connection and then power on will SATA handle that automatically? > Is there a command I need to run to tell it check for new disks? > > Is this possible? > Will I have to reboot to get the swapped external disk detected. This depends on the controller - some don't provide hotplug support. There is some info here http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sata.html. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com