From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Paul Hedderly Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 10:47:52 +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 Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 07:17:33AM -0600, Kari Karhi wrote: > Hi, > so let me try to summarize for my own understanding. Comments are welcome. > > 1. The mechanism used to probe the hardware for new devices during boot can > not be used later during normal operation of the os. This prevents linux > from running the ide-probe again and updating the device maps. Therefore > there can be no user level commands one could run after plugging in a > hot-pluggable device, that would find the device and add it to the device > maps. No. I'm sure that isn't true. See the idectl command. Also see 'hdparm -U' and 'hdparm -R' which allow to un/register devices on specific IDE channels. I suspect idectl is doing much the same thing. Ahh. idectl is supplied as source in /usr/share/doc/hdparm/examples/idectl... Should be what you want :O) -- Paul ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Does your code think in ink? You could win a Tablet PC. Get a free Tablet PC hat just for playing. What are you waiting for? http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?micr5043en _______________________________________________ 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