Re: Rescan IDE interfaces
Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Wed, 6 Jan 1999 14:55:52 +0000 (GMT)
> >There is "NO-CODE", that I know of in the IDE-Driver that can even attempt
> >this to date. However, I am game if you want to test-crash your system.
>
> Just for the record (I know this is a reply to an old posting,
> but...) I've hotswapped a few IDE drives and have had no problems
> at all. a call to hdparm to spin the drive down, then unplugged
> it and it worked fine.
It isnt a "no code" currently. With valid hot swappable drives the IDE layer
and PCMCIA layer both assume the other one will deal with cache flushing.
So the 2nd disk you insert sometimes gets tattooed with pieces of the first.
This is a _bad_ IDE/PCMCIA bug.
Alan
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/