I have a Thermaltake BlackX external SATA "enclosure" (it doesn't really enclose the drive, the drive just slips in from the top). This device can connect to a USB 2,0 or an eSATA port on the host computer.
When I have it connected via USB I can slip in a drive and power it up and will be notified in a few seconds of the availability of new media ( the partitions on the drive). I'd like the same thing to happen when using the eSATA port.
I know that all of the hardware is working because I can boot openSUSE 12.3 i586 via the eSATA interface and everything works great. But if I reboot from the internal drive, that external drive is never made available. I doesn't matter if it's powered on at bootup or if I do a "hotplug" by powering up the drive after the system is running.
I assume that it's probably some udev rule that's not configured to permit this, but I'm not proficient enough in udev speak to have an idea of where or how to start.
I'd appreciate any guidance you can offer.
Thanks,
ron
When I have it connected via USB I can slip in a drive and power it up and will be notified in a few seconds of the availability of new media ( the partitions on the drive). I'd like the same thing to happen when using the eSATA port.
I know that all of the hardware is working because I can boot openSUSE 12.3 i586 via the eSATA interface and everything works great. But if I reboot from the internal drive, that external drive is never made available. I doesn't matter if it's powered on at bootup or if I do a "hotplug" by powering up the drive after the system is running.
I assume that it's probably some udev rule that's not configured to permit this, but I'm not proficient enough in udev speak to have an idea of where or how to start.
I'd appreciate any guidance you can offer.
Thanks,
ron