On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 14:14 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > 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. Here's probably the same info and more, in a easier to read format (feature matrix). Plus has added bonus of coming from the proverbial horse's mouth :) http://linux-ata.org/driver-status.html#matrix --Tim ___________________________________________________________________ / Isn't it strange that the same people that laugh at gypsy fortune \ \ tellers take economists seriously? / ------------------------------------------------------------------- \ \ \ \ /\ ( ) .( o ).