Recommended hot-plug eSATA PCI cards?

[Peter Petrakis]

Could you post the output of 'lspci -kn'. What does lsscsi look like
when everything is working? Also, the output from 'lsscsi -H' would
be good.

Peter

P.S. lsscsi usually isn't installed by default so yum install or
apt-get install ...

On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 2:13 PM, Scott Ehrlich <srehrlich-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> lspci shows the card just fine.   The eSATA hard drive works just
> fine.   If the eSATA drive is plugged into the PC while the PC is
> already powered on, the drive is not seen.  I'm not looking to boot
> from the eSATA drive.  Simply interact with it.
>
> But, if the PC is restarted, but the eSATA drive remains powered on
> and plugged into the PC, then Linux sees the drive.
>
> I happen to be using a startech PCI card whose documentation says
> nothing about having a hot-pluggable eSATA port and happens to use VIA
> chipset.   I say these as a point of information (aka fyi).
>
> Documentation on at least one Promise eSATA card does say the eSATA
> port is hot-pluggable.
>
> Scott
>
> On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 1:51 PM, Peter Petrakis
> <peter.petrakis-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> eSATA is hotpluggable by design. It's not card that's the problem,
>> it's the driver and/or the userspace tools which manage the mounting.
>> Is it not showing up after you plug it in? If so try doing a scsi bus scan.
>>
>> http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/wikis/display/linuxp/scsi+-+hot+add,+remove,+rescan+of+scsi+devices
>>
>> or more to the point,
>> echo "- - -" > /sys/class/scsi_host/hostX/scan
>>
>> where X is the host representing your esata controller.
>>
>> Peter
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 8:19 AM, Scott Ehrlich <srehrlich-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>>> I have a mix of older and newer PCs, some of which only have PCI
>>> cards, but most which run Linux that need a PCI card that support
>>> hot-plugging of an external eSATA-capable USB drive.
>>>
>>> I've seen models from Adaptec, Addonics, Promise, among others.
>>> Which models do you use and what would you recommend?
>>>
>>> I only need the ability to back up and transfer data quickly, but with
>>> the added benefit of adding/removing the drive whenever I want.
>>>
>>> I currently have a non hot-plug eSATA card, but I need to reboot the
>>> machine whenever the external drive as been disconnected for it to be
>>> seen again.
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> Scott
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