Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 28 Mar 2002 10:29:45 +0100 (CET) | From | Jos Hulzink <> | Subject | Re: DE and hot-swap disk caddies |
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On Wed, 27 Mar 2002, Erik Andersen wrote:
> 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,
I can't say from here. My guess is that the chipset has an extension to the ATA standard that allows hot plugging. Your CDrom behaves like a normal IDE device, which doesn't mean it is one :) For your hotpluggable device support, we'll need info about the chipset your laptop uses, and the cdrom drive. Maybe Dell is willing to help us out here.
Jos
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