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On Friday 21 April 2006 15:46, "Sieb, Glenn E (Glenn)" <sieb@××××××.com> |
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wrote about '[gentoo-user] Hotpluggable SATA question...': |
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> In Gentoo they show as being SCSI, fine, no problem with that. |
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That's the same across all linuxes. |
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> If I hotplug a drive into the chassis--it powers up, but Gentoo doesn't |
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> see it until reboot. |
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That because it's using the SCSI subsystem in linux. That subsystem was |
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never designed to handle hotpluging. After you add a device to the |
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system, you have to 'echo "scsi add-single-device <controller> <bus/chain> |
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<target/id> <lun>" > /proc/scsi/scsi'. It is left as an exercise for the |
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reader to detemine the correct values for the 4 variables. |
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> Has anyone else used hotpluggable SATA drives in Gentoo 2006.0? Is there |
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> some mysterious package I need to emerge for this to work right? |
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From what I understand: |
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There are kernel changes required to get SCSI hotplug (and SATA hotplug) to |
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work "hands free". They are in development, but there's no ETA for when |
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they will be supported. |
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-- |
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"If there's one thing we've established over the years, |
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it's that the vast majority of our users don't have the slightest |
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clue what's best for them in terms of package stability." |
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-- Gentoo Developer Ciaran McCreesh |
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