From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S272738AbTHKRKz (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Aug 2003 13:10:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S272910AbTHKRIN (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Aug 2003 13:08:13 -0400 Received: from mail.convergence.de ([212.84.236.4]:41419 "EHLO mail.convergence.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S272840AbTHKREv (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Aug 2003 13:04:51 -0400 Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 19:04:48 +0200 From: Johannes Stezenbach To: Flameeyes Cc: Kernel List Subject: Re: IDE Hotswap Disks Message-ID: <20030811170448.GC732@convergence.de> Mail-Followup-To: Johannes Stezenbach , Flameeyes , Kernel List References: <1060615212.13982.15.camel@defiant.flameeyes> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1060615212.13982.15.camel@defiant.flameeyes> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. Johannes