On Tue, 2010-04-06 at 15:23 -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote: > I have an eSATA external hard drive case. I want to hotplug / unplug it. > > My system is Fedora 11. > > I added an external eSATA port on my desktop computer by adding a bracket > (with an internal cable connected to one of the ordinary SATA sockets on > the motherboard.) > > The SATA controller is an intel ICH9R. To make hotplug work, I needed > to go the computer's BIOS and change the SATA mode to AHCI (it was > IDE). > > I can now hotplug the drive. > > I cannot unplug the drive. If I tell the system to eject the drive, > it complains: > > # eject /dev/sdi > eject: device "/dev/sdi" doesn't have a removable or hotpluggable flag > # cat /sys/block/sdi/removable > 0 > (I don't know where or what a hotpluggable flag is.) > > I guess that makes sense: the system doesn't know that I added an > eSATA bracket. > > What are the reasonable ways to tell the system that that SATA port is > an eSATA port and should allow for hotplugging/unplugging? > > My guess is some kind of HAL rule but I'm not an initiate. Maybe > something in here would work: > <http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/How_to_hotswap_UltraBay_devices> > > Surely lots of people have already encountered this issue. If so, > there ought to be a non-wizard way to handle it. Hi I have used hotplug hard drives for some time but never used eject Try to sort it out as root and then move on to a normal user What does mount show when the disk is plugged in? It should be showing /dev/sdix I believe not /dev/sdi umount should be working for root but not for a normal user Brute force enabling of a normal user to mount a hotplug ext disk For F11 I edited /etc/PolicyKit/PolicyKit.conf to permit "everybody" to mount <config version="0.1"> <match action="org.freedesktop.hal.storage.*"> <return result="yes"/> </match> </config> or even worse nedit /etc/PolicyKit/PolicyKit.conf Let root and ja do anything !!!! <config version="0.1"> <match user="root|ja"> <return result="yes"/> </match> </config> These hacks have changed for F12 ! I am using KDM and XFCE and gnome is installed so what is controlling udev/hal type things is a mystery to me ! With the hacks above for a normal user the disks get mounted and the Thunar file manager is opened automatically However I use pcmanfm to unmount external eSATA disk partitions as they are all shown in the file manager side panel John -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
