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SubjectRe: IDE hot-swap kernel support

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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