Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 25 Feb 2001 19:09:42 -0800 (PST) | From | Andre Hedrick <> | Subject | Re: IDE floppy drives and devfs - no device nodes if no disk loaded atboot |
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I have HOTSWAP ATA completed, but will release after IDF. It will be used to blow MircoSoft out of the water at IDF.
On Sun, 25 Feb 2001, Jeremy Jackson wrote:
> Derrik Pates wrote: > > > Subject says about all there is to say. I have figured out that IDE drives > > are enumerated as part of the boot-time partition check in > > fs/partitions/check.c, but if I don't have something loaded at boot time > > (IDE SuperDisk in PC at home, IDE Zip 100 in G3 tower at work), I never > > get device nodes at all with devfs. Something really needs to be done > > about this, IMHO. > > hdparm's got a cmd line switch to unregiser/register and ide interface. > It tried it *once* and it just complained about cmd line args being wrong... > i'll have to look into it more. when working it should help your situation. > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >
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