ESATA drive mounting

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I have installed a cable that lets me connect the internal SATA connection on my CPU to an ESATA connection on a removable hard drive.

 

I would like to be able to swap removable hard drives, and continue to use this ESATA connection (vs. old USB connection)

 

 

I am unsure how to mount this new type of connection (the USB way used to 'just work')

 

 

I have done an 'fdisk -l' and discovered that the drive is this:

Code:

Disk /dev/sdc: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

  Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdc1               1      121602   976762552+   b  W95 FAT32

 

as root I then typed:

 

Code:

mkdir /archive
mount /dev/sdc1 /archive

 

This has allowed the drive to show up as read only - but not writable for users (not root)

 

 

Is there a different way that I need to mount this drive in order for it to be read and writable by other users of the system?

Can I add this mount information to my /etc/fstab file so that no matter what drive is connected to the ESATA cable it will show up as '/archive'? (will it always be /dev/sdc1 ? (There are 2 other drives in the CPU that are sda and sdb))

Can I 'hot swap' this ESATA connection by

Code:

umount /archive

and then swapping the drive out and somehow remounting? (or will I have to reboot between drive changes?)

 

 

Thanks for advice.

 

Jeff