<div dir="ltr">I've got a new laptop with an eSATA port and a new (unformatted) eSATA external hard drive. Is eSATA hot plug compatible with a stock F8 kernel ? $ uname -a Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.26.3-14.fc8 #1 SMP Wed Sep 3 03:40:05 EDT 2008 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux $ /sbin/lsmod | grep sat sata_sil24 16069 0 libata 131937 3 ata_piix,sata_sil24,ahci The reason I ask is because I expected to be able to plug it in and do an fdisk /dev/sdc and set up a new partition. (My laptop has 2 internal hard drives, sda and sdb, so sdc should be the external eSATA drive, right ?) When fdisk failed, I resorted to hwbrowser. It stalled/crashed. I repeated the experiment after a reboot with the drive powered up, ie not hotplugged anymore, with the same results. What am I missing ? Thanks </div>