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SubjectRE: Hot PCI bus plugging
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> Compaq Servers come with hot pluggable PCI slots.. can you 
> re-scan the PCI
> bus once linux has booted? Or would this cause probs?

I don't think you can rescan the bus, but what you can do is hot-replace a
card. ie If your nic breaks you could hot-swap it with an identical nic, and
insert the driver again.

incidentally, this is no more than what NT4 can do on Compaq hardware.

regards,

-paul jakma.




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