Re: IDE racks
M.Brands (shrike@il.fontys.nl)
Sat, 26 Jun 1999 00:13:17 +0200
On Fri, Jun 25, 1999 at 10:43:36PM +0200, Francis GALIEGUE allegedly wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Machine is K6 200 MHz, 128 MB, motherboard Asus TX-97E. I have two
> disks on the primary IDE interface plus a rack and ZIP drive on the
> second one.
>
> What I'd like is that the rack (hdc) allow hot swapping of disk, but
> it doesn't work, no matter the kernel. I can umount, remove the rack,
> put another disk in but then if I do a fdisk -l /dev/hdc it just hangs
> solid. Whether the ZIP is plugged or not doesn't make any difference.
>
> I cannot afford to compile IDE as a module, so is there any solution? I
> was thinking about two things:
>
> * are there any plans to split IDE interfaces initialization, ie
> separate configuration of first, second, etc. interfaces? If there were,
> would it solve my problem? If no, why?
>
> * will devfs solve the problem?
Someone submitted a patch that allowed you to rescan an IDE bus. I
can probably dig it up if you can't find it on the net. It was probably
sent to the LKML less than two weeks ago.
Mathijs
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