2001-03-12 16:19:51

by Pozsar Balazs

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Subject: Ide Hot-swaping?


Is it possible to hot-swap ide drives and re-detect them?
Does 'normal' Pc-hardware allow it?

thanks,
Balazs Pozsar.


2001-03-12 17:26:55

by Jeremy Jackson

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Subject: Re: Ide Hot-swaping?

Pozsar Balazs wrote:

> Is it possible to hot-swap ide drives and re-detect them?
> Does 'normal' Pc-hardware allow it?

read a recent man page for hdparm and you will see kernel
allows remove/add ide interface. scripts with correct
parameter usage are in contrib directory of hdparm source.
IDE maintainer has code to electrically turn off (tristate)
ide channels on most PC ide chips, but is waiting to
demonstrate at an industry conference before releasing
to public.

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>
> thanks,
> Balazs Pozsar.
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2001-03-12 17:32:15

by Andre Hedrick

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Subject: Re: Ide Hot-swaping?


Yes, but I have not made public that code until more clean ups.

On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Pozsar Balazs wrote:

>
> Is it possible to hot-swap ide drives and re-detect them?
> Does 'normal' Pc-hardware allow it?
>
> thanks,
> Balazs Pozsar.
>
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