>
> It might be worthwhile opening a debate about some method for telling a
> driver not to both with a partition scan. A boot option or /proc
> interface might do the trick:
Uh??
If the drive is removable (else why should you get "Media Changed") You
MUST do a partition scan.
The requested partition is usually different on the new media and might
not exist at all.
I know removable media is usually formatted as a single partition (You
can even make a filesystem on the raw device), but checking what's
actually on the media is (IMHO) an absolute "must".
You can have a "quiet" option if You care, anything else seems just too
dangerous (i do not think there's any chance the first sector of a
sensible filesystem can have the "aa55" signature at the end; *only* if
this signature is absent I would allow raw partition mounting).
>
> hdc=nopartscan
>
> (If this has already been done, ignore me ...)
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> - Grant R. Guenther
> grant@torque.net
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
Best Regards
Mauro Condarelli
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