do anyone knows about a hot-pluggable sata controller

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Hi all

Do anyone knows about a sata-controller card that
works as hot-pluggable under opensuse.

You umount the drive.
unplug it.
Insert a new one
<hw/os autodetects it>
You mount it an off you go.

Currently I’m using usb disks, but esata is much faster.
unfortunately I have to reboot for it to find it.

8hours vs 4.5hours on a 1Tbyte backup for the same disk.

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Thanks
MortenB

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hi…
i am using ez-swap2… i got 2… i use the first one to work and the second one (also with suse) to test whatever linux is offering…
cheers!!

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I believe that any (e-)sata controller will give you the ability to hotplug any esata device in openSUSE. But I stumbled upon some problems because linux (hal & policykit) sees an e-sata device as a fixed disk instead of a removable device.

I’m also posting this for future references (when people start a search on the openSUSE forums), since I did not find the solution on this board, but elsewhere. Perhaps it is also smart to put it in a (existing?) wikipage:
I found it here: Arch Linux Forums / [SOLVED] HAL automount in thunar - org.freedesktop PolicyKit error

Solution: give a specific user (which is added to the disk group?) permission to mount fixed disk:
Edit /etc/PolicyKit/PolicyKit.conf like this:


<config version="0.1">

<match action="org.freedesktop.hal.storage.mount-fixed">
  <match user="**Put user account name here**">
    <return result="yes"/>
  </match>
</match>

</config>

KDE4.4 specific:
After that you can let the disk be automounted when hotplugged by adding it as an enabled automount device in the KDE4.4 device notifier