Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Mon, 11 Aug 2003 19:04:48 +0200 | From | Johannes Stezenbach <> | Subject | Re: IDE Hotswap Disks |
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On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 05:20:13PM +0200, Flameeyes wrote: > I've a rack for ide HDDs that claims to be hotswappable, in fact, I'm > able to remove the disk without problems after unmount it. > The problem is when I try to connect it after booting without it. The > only way I have is rebooting (also with warm reboot) the machine, and > then the kernel rescan the bus and see the new drive. > I tried hdparm -R /dev/hdb (i'm using devfs, but also create the block > device 0 64 do nothing), but it gave me "expected hwif_ctrl". > There's a way to rescan the bus without reboot? I need to try with > ide-scsi support?
The hdparm package includes a script which does that (idectl). I used it sporadically with a Thinpad Ultrabay IDE disk and cdrom.
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