Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 6 Jul 1999 11:04:26 +0200 (CEST) | From | Egervary Gergely <> | Subject | Re: re-scan ide devices |
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> The drives on the re-scanned channel must not be in use (mounted, > ioctl-operated, etc.). > If you want to rescan sth on the first IDE channel, you must: > - umount everything from /dev/hdax, dev/hdbx > - swapoff -"- -"- -"- > - use an existing drive from another channel in fopen(), eg. hdc > > These are ioctl() limitations...
I'm trying to re-scan ide1 (with a single disk, hdc connected) and _really_ nothing uses that disk. - and, as you see - I fopen() /dev/hda which is on ide0 ofcourse...
ideas? working code?
- mauzi
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