Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 1 Jul 2000 20:26:20 -0700 (PDT) | From | Andre Hedrick <> | Subject | Re: IDE hot-swap kernel support |
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Well Dot Warner is telling you that you changed the rules and the scope of the thread. Loading/Unloading modules is a clean way to do the re-init. Please follow the thread and explain how to do this with the sub-system compiled into the kernel.
Cheers,
On Sat, 1 Jul 2000, Wakko Warner wrote:
> > If you want empty bays at boot, then there needs to be code that handles > > the exception. You yank a device out of some hosts and boot and the host > > is never loaded. You are now talking about a re-init process to wake-up > > and INT19 hook some the the add-on cards with BIOS to the Mainboard BIOS. > > That will get UGLY. > > I've tried ide hot swap on drives I don't care about with main boards I > didn't care about. I've had very good luck with this. I have a netboot > machine that's used for this type of thing. Boot it up, there's no IDE > drive attached. Attach ide drive, load ide modules, ide drive shows up. > > My laptop has a hotswap bay that can hold the floppy, cdrom, hdd, battery. > (typical, right?) It shouldn't need waking up for it, but then again, I've > never tried it since the boot drive is ide. > > -- > Lab tests show that use of micro$oft causes cancer in lab animals >
Andre Hedrick The Linux ATA/IDE guy
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