Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 27 Mar 2002 17:17:09 -0700 | From | Erik Andersen <> | Subject | Re: DE and hot-swap disk caddies |
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On Wed Mar 27, 2002 at 03:57:48PM -0800, Andre Hedrick wrote: > > If you really want to build in IDE hot swap support, I demand it comes > > with a warning: Enabling this option will probably destroy your harddisks > > and your chipset. Feel free to continue, but don't blame us. > > FYI, there was almost a witch hunt when I went into T13 with a SCA4ATA > proposal. You understand the issue and I am glad it was you and not me to > have to bang this drum. Thanks.
Ok. How about my laptop? I have an ATAPI zip drive I can plug in instead of a second battery. It is the only device on the second IDE bus (hdc). In windows there is a little hotplug utility thing one runs before unplugging the zip drive. In Linux I currently have to reboot if I want the ide-floppy driver to see the device... I'm willing to bet that Dell has done mysterious stuff to make the electrical part work. It would sure be nice if I could ask the ide driver to kindly re-scan for /dev/hdc now.
Is whatever windows is doing when I hotplug my zip drive somehow unsafe, such that supporting the same functionality on Linux is somehow a Bad Thing(tm)?
-Erik
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