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SubjectRe: Rescan IDE interfaces
On Wed, Jan 06, 1999 at 02:55:52PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:

> It isnt a "no code" currently. With valid hot swappable drives the
> IDE layer and PCMCIA layer both assume the other one will deal with
> cache flushing. So the 2nd disk you insert sometimes gets tattooed
> with pieces of the first. This is a _bad_ IDE/PCMCIA bug.

Won't:

umount <ide>
sync
<spin down & swap>
open <ide> & ioctl to re-read paritional table (invalidates cache)
mount

work?



-cw


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