Re: hot swap eSATA

["Dan Ritter-2" <user=13@nabble.blu.org>]

 On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 08:05:36PM -0400, Tom Metro wrote: 
> Dan Ritter wrote: 
> >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. 
> 
> I tried this out today with an eSATA drive, and for some reason the 
> kernel didn't see the drive, even though it was connected during boot. 
> Hard to say what the cause might be. I noticed the eSATA cable didn't 
> seem to fully seat on the controller card. Seems to be a common problem 
> with eSATA cables having large shoulders preventing them from fitting 
> into tight spaces.