From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Gregory Leblanc Subject: Re: IDE bus rescan Date: 04 Jun 2002 16:44:23 -0700 Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <1023234274.10648.67.camel@peecee> References: <5.1.0.14.2.20020604123917.06a1ac50@mail.harddata.com> <5.1.0.14.2.20020604171615.03d9ab90@mail.harddata.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20020604171615.03d9ab90@mail.harddata.com> To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On Tue, 2002-06-04 at 16:17, Maurice Hilarius wrote: > With regards to your message at 04:54 PM 6/4/02, Friedrich Lobenstock. > Where you stated: > >Maurice Hilarius wrote: > >>Hi There > >>Problem: > >>On IDE software RAID setup, we want to be able to hot-swap out a failed disk. > >>Using 3Ware cards we can swap only by rebooting system to recognise the > >>new drive > >>Question: Is there a way to rescan IDE bus to recognise a new drive? > > > >Are you using the 3Ware Diskmanager Daemon and its webinterface or not? > >It seems not. > As I understand it that is only useful if we use the 3Ware BIOS RAID. > In this case we are interested in doing this with software RAID > So how would we make it rescan with this?? Hmm, hard to say. When I'm hot swapping PCI cards, I simply unload the kernel module that is the driver for that card before I power-off/remove the card. I don't know enough about kernel internals to know how to do this with a single IDE bus, though. Greg -- Portland, Oregon, USA. Please don't copy me on replies to the list.