From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 8 May 2002 06:06:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 8 May 2002 06:06:06 -0400 Received: from [195.63.194.11] ([195.63.194.11]:18951 "EHLO mail.stock-world.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 8 May 2002 06:06:05 -0400 Message-ID: <3CD8E9D1.1010309@evision-ventures.com> Date: Wed, 08 May 2002 11:03:13 +0200 From: Martin Dalecki User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; pl-PL; rv:1.0rc1) Gecko/20020419 X-Accept-Language: en-us, pl MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Guest section DW CC: Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.5.14 IDE 56 In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20020507153451.02381ec0@pop.cus.cam.ac.uk> <20020507162010.GA13032@ravel.coda.cs.cmu.edu> <3CD7F212.5090608@evision-ventures.com> <20020507213603.GA18535@ravel.coda.cs.cmu.edu> <20020508002513.GA26150@win.tue.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Uz.ytkownik Guest section DW napisa?: > On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 05:36:03PM -0400, Jan Harkes wrote: > >>On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 05:26:10PM +0200, Martin Dalecki wrote: >> >>>Uz.ytkownik Jan Harkes napisa?: >>> >>>>I'm still hoping a patch will show up that will allow me to regain >>>>access to my compactflash cards and IBM microdrive disks. The code >>>>currently doesn't rescan for new drives when a card has been inserted, >>>>although it still seems to have all the necessary logic. >>> >>>Yes I'm fully aware of this, but the whole initialization >>>is currently much in flux and I will return to this issue back >>>if I think that things are in shape there. OK? >> >>I thought so, you already indicated so around the time that it broke. >>There is still a 2.4 kernel when I really need to get to the data. > > > I usually do > > blockdev --rereadpt /dev/sde > > or so. That still works for me with 2.5.13. What you have to do by hand now is the rescanning for partition information. What you do is triggering just that. And if I think about it... and you know I'm evil... hmmm... well why just don't let it be like that. It's functionally somehow the responsibility of the /sbin/hotplug thing anyway...