Re: [PATCH] 2.5.5-pre1 IDE cleanup 9

Greg KH
2002-02-22T21:48:27Z

On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 02:30:14PM -0700, Erik Andersen wrote:
> On Fri Feb 22, 2002 at 12:41:57PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> >
> > Right now I just point people to the Adaptec cards when they complain
> > about their controllers not working with hotplug :)
>
> Well, even aic7xxx actually don't do hotplug correctly either.
> Or more accurately, with my Adaptec 1480B I can hotplug, and I
> can then hot-unplug, but I can't hotplug again... Just try
> pulling the 1480 card and then doing a
> cat /proc/scsi/aic7xxx/0
> some time and watch all the fireworks,

Hm, I didn't try the 'cat' test, but I did successfully unplug and then
add a card, and then spin up the drives attached to that drive. But
that was a long time ago. Things might have changed since then.

This is with a cardbus device, right? I have never looked into them
before.

thanks,

greg k-h