[mythtv-users] removable storage questions

[Dan Wilga]

IMHO, you'd be better off not using a storage group that points to an 
occasionally-present drive. If you do that, the backend will try to 
record new programs in the directory, even if there's nothing mounted 
there.

Instead, create the mount point as you normally would, move the items 
over to it, and create symlinks from the old location (in the 
existing storage directory) over to the new place. That way, the 
worst thing that will happen to your users is that they get an error 
when they try to play a missing program. You might put all of the 
items that are on inactive disks into a recording group of their own.

Also, it's worth noting that you can hot swap SATA and SCSI drives, 
but not IDE ones. IDE's require a reboot.
-- 
Dan Wilga                                                        "Ook."