From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Oliver Neukum Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 19:05:21 +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="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org Am Montag, 17. M=E4rz 2003 18:50 schrieb Greg KH: > 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. Not entirely true. It's supported in Apple Powerbooks. What happens if we suspend to disk and wake up with a changed drive ? Regards Oliver ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by:Crypto Challenge is now open!=20 Get cracking and register here for some mind boggling fun and=20 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