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> I'm willing to write a little tool for Linux. I noticed, that I can swap Ide
> drives on-the-fly, i.e., umount drive, turn off the power of particular
> drive, pull of the cable, and it's ok for Linux. The same way I can insert
> drive, but.. only the same drive.
This is a really bad idea. From what I've seen, most drives are labeled
with cautions about not plugging a live power source into their power
sockets, and I've seen at least one report of someone frying a drive
like that.

> So, question: now do I implement a re-probe of devices? So I can insert
> drive of new type, and for example:
On the other hand, my cheapo IDE cd-rom doesn't always probe successfully
on boot. It would be nice to have such a feature anyway.

Keith


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