[Kde-hardware-devel] e-Sata and solid.

[Lamarque Vieira Souza]

Em Tuesday 21 September 2010, Hugo Parente Lima escreveu:

> 
> It worked! :-) Thanks!

	You are welcome.
 
> There's a way to tell hald to not ignore new driver partitions?
> 
> Because write a XML file to be able to mount a external HD isn't much user
> friendly, hehe, or this is the default hald behaviour and you guys from
> solid can't do nothing to fix it?

	This is the default hald behaviour. We cannot do anything about it 
because as far as I know there is no hald programming interface to edit .fdi 
files. There is the hal-set-property command line program but by the time you 
execute it the "one disk has just appearred" event will already have been 
processed. Anyway, hald is deprecated, it is going to vanish in the future 
when we finish the Solid transition to udisk and upower. KDE is the only big 
desktop/program/etc that still uses hal extensively.
 
> For example.. if I plug another e-SATA HD on my computer, from a friend,
> whatever, I'll need to write another XML file...  : -/

	Ok, I did some more research and I think I have found a solution for you. 
Change the <match>...</match> line to this one:

<match key="linux.sysfs_path" 
contains="/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/host4/">

	Change the /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/host4/ to match your e-
sata's controller. Use "find /sys/devices -name sdb" to find which host your 
e-sata controllers is using. Now it will treat every disk attached to e-sata 
controller as removable. The problem is that the Linux kernel treats "e-sata 
disks" as non-removable. The attribute /sys/class/block/sdb/removable is 0 for 
my disk, it should be 1. Maybe it is a kernel bug, I do not know.

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