Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 26 Jun 1999 00:13:17 +0200 | From | "M.Brands" <> | Subject | Re: IDE racks |
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On Fri, Jun 25, 1999 at 10:43:36PM +0200, Francis GALIEGUE allegedly wrote: > Hi, > > Machine is K6 200 MHz, 128 MB, motherboard Asus TX-97E. I have two > disks on the primary IDE interface plus a rack and ZIP drive on the > second one. > > What I'd like is that the rack (hdc) allow hot swapping of disk, but > it doesn't work, no matter the kernel. I can umount, remove the rack, > put another disk in but then if I do a fdisk -l /dev/hdc it just hangs > solid. Whether the ZIP is plugged or not doesn't make any difference. > > I cannot afford to compile IDE as a module, so is there any solution? I > was thinking about two things: > > * are there any plans to split IDE interfaces initialization, ie > separate configuration of first, second, etc. interfaces? If there were, > would it solve my problem? If no, why? > > * will devfs solve the problem?
Someone submitted a patch that allowed you to rescan an IDE bus. I can probably dig it up if you can't find it on the net. It was probably sent to the LKML less than two weeks ago.
Mathijs
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