From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 19:09:32 +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 On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 08:05:21PM +0100, Oliver Neukum wrote: > 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 probi= ng > > > 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. >=20 > 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 ------------------------------------------------------- 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