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Re: hot swap eSATA



 On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 08:20:06PM -0400, Tom Metro wrote: 
> Supposedly you can hot swap eSATA drives if your hardware and software 
> supports it. Anyone know what's required on the software side in Linux? 

umount all the partitions; hdparm -Y /dev/sdx to lock the drive safely; 
swap the disks; 
hdparm -z /dev/sdx to reread the partition table; 
mount the partitions. 

For driver support, consult 
http://linux-ata.org/driver-status.html

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