Messages in this thread | | | From | Keith Rohrer <> | Subject | Re: ide.c question! | Date | Sun, 1 Jun 1997 18:13:27 -0500 (CDT) |
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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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