From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 17:50:17 +0000 Subject: Re: hotpluggable ide cd-rom drive? Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 06:56:28AM -0600, Kari Karhi wrote: > > Is there a user level command to kick the ide-probe module into probing the > ide bus again? Or is work going on to get the kernel to support > hot-pluggable ide drives? Or am I just missing some configuration > parameter? Unfortunately this is usually done in a hardware specific way, and since neither Dell, nor any other laptop manufacturer has provided the specs for how to detect and do this kind of hot-swap, Linux does not support it. Sorry, greg k-h ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by:Crypto Challenge is now open! Get cracking and register here for some mind boggling fun and the chance of winning an Apple iPod: http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?thaw0031en _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel