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On 4/21/06, Sieb, Glenn E (Glenn) <sieb@××××××.com> wrote: |
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> Hmm. |
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> I have servers using the SuperMicro P8SCT motherboard, which supports hot-pluggable SATA drives. |
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> In Gentoo they show as being SCSI, fine, no problem with that. |
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> If I hotplug a drive into the chassis--it powers up, but Gentoo doesn't see it until reboot. |
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> Has anyone else used hotpluggable SATA drives in Gentoo 2006.0? Is there some mysterious package I need to emerge for this to work right? |
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Wouldn't it have been easier to just google for "linux SATA hotplug"? |
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The first link takes you to this page: |
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http://linux-ata.org/sata-status.html |
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Which explains that the AHCI hardware supports hotplug, but not the |
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libata core on which the driver is based. So for now, it seems that |
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SATA hotplug is not possible on your system. |
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-Richard |
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