Re: shuttle sd37p2 eSATA driver?

ivowel@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
I have been running the shuttle sd37p2 for 2 weeks under gentoo linux
now. I am pleased. It is quiet and stable. Fitting a fat video card
into it is however not easy. My advice would be to stick to more basic
video cards that don't have huge coolers. I have found good linux
drivers for everything---except for one item: the eSata port on it. I
presumed it is supposed plug and play, and that the internal SATA
driver would just pick up when a new drive appears on it (just like
USB). alas, this does not seem to be the case.

Does that mean you're hot plugging the drive when you say "just like USB"? If so, you might want to try booting with the eSATA drive attached.

Also, for SCSI drives, you can do:

echo "scsi-add-single-device a b c d" >/proc/scsi/scsi

to hot plug them. Since SATA drives operate through the SCSI layer, this might work for hot plugging your eSATA drive. In the above command, "a b c d" need to be replaced with the proper SCSI identification numbers for you device. Post the output of 'cat /proc/scsi/scsi' if you need help figuring them out. Or perhaps just try the "rescan-scsi-bus.sh" script. (Google for it, if your distro doesn't include it.)
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