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

[Hugo Parente Lima]

On Wednesday 30 March 2011 15:38:23 yahoo-pier_andreit wrote:
> 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 :-)

I'm using kde 4.6.1 and kernel 2.6.28 and to use my eSATA I need to back into 
the old ugly days and open a terminal to mount the partitions by hand being 
root :-/

-- 
Hugo Parente Lima
INdT - Instituto Nokia de Tecnologia
"Precisamos de mais gênios humildes no mundo, hoje somos poucos!"
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