I have opensuse11 and gnome
Box has a sata traymount for harddrive connected to the internal sata bus - ie open the door on the front of the drive and swap drives.
Also, various internal drives in raid and one internal boot/os drive (not raid)
Box is mainly for network backup and file serving
This is what I was hoping to achieve …
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use raid drives are for file serving, backup and temporary file storage. This fine and all setup and working.
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use the sata tray drive to use various hard drives for archive and backup rotation ie copy data from the raid to a drive in the tray, remove the drive and store (Why? Cause i figure that hard drives are the most durable long term storage option and are probably far less likely to degrade over time than any other medium, plus they are **** cheap storage per MB)
But … the plans of mice and men …
Box is on - pop a drive in the tray - nothing - not in yast - doesn’t just popup like a usb drive would - how do i get this to occur?
OK so maybe it should be formatted first - do that - now the box won’t boot unless the drive is in the tray.
I want this box to operate just as if the drive were say a usb drive or a CD/DVD drive.
Please, please, please help me to make this happen.
