Re: SCSI removable devices problem

[Randy.Dunlap]

On Sun, 1 Aug 2004 14:19:31 +0200 Giuliano Pochini wrote:

| 
| 
| It seems that 2.6.7 reads the partition table only once: when the scsi unit
| is added to the list during boot or when I send the "add-single-device"
| command. This is a problem with removable devices because if the drive
| hasn't a disk inserted at boot time, attempting to mount a partitioned disk
| always results in:
| 
| mount: /dev/sdb1 is not a valid block device
| 
| Also, bad things may happen (not tested) if a disk was in during boot and I
| replace it with another one with a different partitioning.
| 
| As a workaround I have to send the "remove-single-device" command after
| having unmounted a volume and "add-single-device" after I have inserted a
| new one. I don't know when this problem was introduced, sorry.

I think that it's been this way for some time now...

Does using
	blockdev --rereadpt /dev/sdb1
help?

--
~Randy
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