On Thursday 09 September 2004 08:25, 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? > Thx Pir > > Hotswap might do what you need: $ apt-cache show hotswap Package: hotswap Priority: optional Section: admin Installed-Size: 12 Maintainer: Alberto Gonzalez Iniesta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Architecture: all Version: 0.4.0-6 Depends: hotswap-text, hotswap-gui Filename: pool/main/h/hotswap/hotswap_0.4.0-6_all.deb Size: 4252 MD5sum: 66cbb12510734bacda7ed606c68e37b8 Description: (de)register hotswappable IDE hardware Hotswap is a utility to register and deregister hotswappable IDE hardware. It is written to be used on Laptops with some sort of hardware bay to remove the module from the machine without rebooting it. eg. Dell Laptops. . Note that this utility is not required to insert or remove batteries or floppy disk drives; only for IDE devices. . This is a meta-package that Depends on both the command line tool and the graphical front-ends to allow seamless upgrades.
I've got a Dell laptop, and hotswap works OK. I can't seem to get non-privileged users permission to run it, but root runs it OK. Sometimes, I have a problem, but it generally works. Justin Guerin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
