Re: IDE and isapnp

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sun, 19 Dec 1999 01:33:52 +0000 (GMT)

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> As soon as the device becomes available, does linux see it? I'm not sure,
> but I don't believe it does. Can you show a code fragment or such which
> will show how to have linux rescan for ide drives?

You would need to load the ide driver as a module. If your root fs is also
ide that would get kind of tricky yes. There is an ioctl for adding new
IDE interfaces. I've never used it.

Alan

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