In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Luigi Rizzo writes:
: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wilko Bulte writes:
: > : Is it possible to have something like the 'camcontrol rescan' that
: > : the SCSI CAM subsystem has?
: >
: > NO. These cards are not hot pluggable. I've blown out two IDE
: > Controllers hot plugging them. DO NOT TRY TO HOTPLUG THEM OR YOU WILL
: > BE SORRY.
: >
: > I hate to shout like that, but after the second IDE controller fried,
: > I got real conservative.
:
: i think he was referring to compactflash memories which you can stick
: into pcmcia adapters and are hot-pluggable.
No he wasn't. He talkd specifically about the TAPR adapter, which
connects to the IDE bus and is not hot pluggable. I have one of these
beasts, which is how I know :-)
For the pccard ones, you don't generally need to rescan the bus unless
you have an cdrom that wasn't attached at probe time...
Warner
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