Re: IDE and hot-swap disk caddies

[Mark Lord <mlord@pobox.com>]

Well, what you tried at first is very close,
and could be made to work for you with some debugging.

But ideally, I think the driver should just rescan the interface
anytime a raw drive (minor number == 0) access is performed..
More or less.  With a bit of debounce logic.

Cheers
-- 
Mark Lord
Real-Time Remedies Inc.
mlord@pobox.com


John Summerfield wrote:
> 
> > > The device is hot-swap capable and has a switch (others have a key)
> > > that locks the drive in and powers it up; in the other position the
> > > drive is powered down and can be removed.
> >
> > Linux doesn't support IDE hot swap at the drive level. Its basically
> > waiting people to want it enough to either fund it or go write the code
> >
> 
> What needs to be done? How extensive is the surgery needed?
> 
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