Re: removable media revalidation - udev vs. devfs or static /dev

From: Olaf Hering
Date: Sat Jan 03 2004 - 07:44:53 EST


On Sat, Jan 03, Andries Brouwer wrote:

> On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 11:51:33AM +0300, Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
>
> > yes. So what - how does it help? User needs /dev/sda4. User has /dev/sda only.
> > Any attempt to refer to /dev/sda4 simply returns "No such file or directory"
>
> Things are far from perfect here, but "blockdev --rereadpt /dev/sda" helps.

Is there really no way to get a media change notification from ZIP or
JAZ drives?

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