[olug] Auto-mount prompt for eSATA drive

[Aric Aasgaard]

I remember trying to get something similar to work in the past and gave up.
As far as I know esata and sata are the same thing beyond the plug/cable
specs.

I tried something I read a while back that hacks part of the usb auto mount
code but I never got it to work.

Is there an event that happens when a sata drive is connected?  To my
knowledge you have to rescan the scsi bus to get knowledge of the connected
device.

If an event happens in the sata driver/software for the device you could use
it to trigger your script.

I am currently manually using scripts to hotswap my backup drives.

Let me know if you find a way to get it to work.

-----Original Message-----
From: olug-bounces at olug.org [mailto:olug-bounces at olug.org] On Behalf Of
Obi-Wan
Sent: Sunday, November 08, 2009 12:15 AM
To: olug at olug.org
Subject: [olug] Auto-mount prompt for eSATA drive

Hey all,

I have a pair of shiny, new eSATA/USB hard drives that I use for
system backups.  They both live at work, and alternately come home
over night to get synced up with my system.  The drives are encrypted
ext3.  Home system is Ubuntu 9.04.

When I plug the drives in via USB, I immediately get a GUI prompt
for the encrypted password, and the drive is immediately mounted
when I entre the correct phrase.  Unfortunately, the backup takes
forever because USB 2 is so damn slow.

When I plug the drives in via eSATA, the connection is reported in
dmesg, but since eSATA drives are treated like internal SATA drives,
no GUI prompt is given.  I have to type two command lines (one to
decrypt, one to mount) in order to use the drive.  Same for unmounting.
Once mounted, the backup zips right along, though.

Is there any way to get an eSATA drive to use the same GUI password
prompt as a USB drive?  Google hasn't been much help, except to
explain *why* I get no prompt.

-- 
Ben "Obi-Wan" Hollingsworth                             obiwan at jedi.com
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     Giver of all good things, so if I stand, let me stand on the
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