[Kde-hardware-devel] Re: is eSATA working on Solid?

[yahoo-pier_andreit]

Il 30/03/2011 15:24, Lamarque Vieira Souza ha scritto:
> Em Wednesday 30 March 2011, Hugo Parente Lima escreveu:
>
>  > It's just me or eSATA isn't working anymore on Solid after the drop
> of HAL?
>
>  >
>
>  > My eSATA port is working and I can mount it by command line, but Solid
>
>  > doesn't tell me that the device was attached, what could I do to help you
>
>  > guys to solve the problem, i.e. if this is a general problem on Solid
>
>  > without HAL.
>
>
> That is a Linux kernel deficiency. Linux kernel does not advertise that
> a "e-sata" disk is removable, so unless the user overrides that
> information somewhere (udisks for instance) there is no way Solid can
> know that the disk is removable.
>
>
> Hal used to suffer from this problem too, but in a recent release they
> solved this problem using some heuristics/hacks to know if the disk is
> connected to an e-sata port. Unfortunately nobody has commited such
> heuristics for udisks. It is ironic that the old and obsolete hal
> recently fixed this problem but udisks has not :-/
>
>
> There are some patches for udisks that you can try:
>
>
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35354
>
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22879

Me too have the same problem, I would like to not have to insert 
password for browse e-sata disks, but now with dolphin 1.6.1 and kde 
4.6.1 and kernel 2.6.38-18-desktop on suse 11.4 it seems to works 
better, now I'm asked to insert password at the plug of e-sata disk 
(previously don't, I had to open dolphin as root and then mount e-sata 
disk ). ciao PLA :-)