Re: ide.c question!
Keith Rohrer (kwrohrer@uiuc.edu)
Sun, 1 Jun 1997 18:13:27 -0500 (CDT)
> I'm willing to write a little tool for Linux. I noticed, that I can swap Ide
> drives on-the-fly, i.e., umount drive, turn off the power of particular
> drive, pull of the cable, and it's ok for Linux. The same way I can insert
> drive, but.. only the same drive.
This is a really bad idea. From what I've seen, most drives are labeled
with cautions about not plugging a live power source into their power
sockets, and I've seen at least one report of someone frying a drive
like that.
> So, question: now do I implement a re-probe of devices? So I can insert
> drive of new type, and for example:
On the other hand, my cheapo IDE cd-rom doesn't always probe successfully
on boot. It would be nice to have such a feature anyway.
Keith