From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: hotpluggable ide cd-rom drive?
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 19:09:32 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-hotplug-104792915320503@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-linux-hotplug-104790612323451@msgid-missing>
On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 08:05:21PM +0100, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> Am Montag, 17. März 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.
Oh, forgot, some laptops support this if you suspend to ram, swap out
the drive, and then resume. Works for some APM based laptops, don't
know about ACPI based ones.
> What happens if we suspend to disk and wake up with a changed drive ?
Heh, I don't want to think about that :)
greg k-h
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-03-17 19:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-03-17 12:56 hotpluggable ide cd-rom drive? Kari Karhi
2003-03-17 17:50 ` Greg KH
2003-03-17 19:05 ` Oliver Neukum
2003-03-17 19:09 ` Greg KH [this message]
2003-03-17 20:44 ` Oliver Neukum
2003-03-18 13:17 ` Kari Karhi
2003-03-18 17:56 ` Greg KH
2003-03-19 10:30 ` Paul Hedderly
2003-03-19 10:47 ` Paul Hedderly
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