> Joe Woodward wrote:
>
> I am trying to use removable EIDE hard disks on a Red Hat Linux 6.1
> machine, for backup / walknet purposes.
>
> Issuing a BLKRRPART ioctl call immediately after changing the disk
> works, but only if the new disk is no larger than the disk present at
> boot time (smal
On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 11:12:00AM -, Joe Woodward wrote:
> I am trying to use removable EIDE hard disks
>
> Issuing a BLKRRPART ioctl call immediately after changing the disk works
It should not be necessary to use BLKRRPART.
Does the disk advertise itself as removable?
% dmesg | grep rem
> works, but only if the new disk is no larger than the disk present at =
> boot time (smaller and equal capacity disks work OK).
>
> How do I get Linux to recognise that the media in /dev/hdc has changed?
I imagine your disks are not reporting themselves as 'removable' ? If they
correctly repor
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