On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 04:25:07PM +0200, pir aa wrote: > Is there a way to rescan the IDE Bus under Linux. (Not looking at the need of > HW). The only thing I want to know, is if I can rescan the Bus after power on. > I heard about hdparm -U and hdparm -R, but does it really make a rescan and > realizes the new HD?
The only way that I know of is to compile ide support as a module, and then remove and reload the ide module. Of course, this only works if ide is not being used at the moment, which means no mounted filesystems on ide disks. This probably makes the feature useless for most people. Frank > Thx Pir > -- "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
