Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 1 Feb 2001 09:33:53 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 1 Feb 2001 09:33:42 -0500 Received: from mailserver-ng.cs.umbc.edu ([130.85.100.230]:9468 "EHLO mailserver-ng.cs.umbc.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 1 Feb 2001 09:33:40 -0500 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: ide hotplug and 2.4.1 From: Ian Soboroff X-NSA-Fodder: strategic quiche munitions security Date: 01 Feb 2001 09:27:02 -0500 Message-ID: <87hf2eo4w9.fsf@danube.cs.umbc.edu> Lines: 32 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org i've started playing with 2.4.1 on my Dell Latitude CS and it's pretty peppy; my only complaints are PCMCIA-related, which i think i'll solve by using the standalone package... anyway, my real question is this. i noticed the new options for hotplug, and am wondering if i can use this with my laptop. the Latitude CS has a port on the side, with which you can connect a cable that hooks up to either a floppy drive or a CDROM. if you boot the machine cold with the CDROM attached, linux notices it on a second IDE bus (/dev/hdc). if you boot without it, /dev/hdc isn't there. if you plug in the CDROM while the system is running, there is a noticeable pause for a couple seconds, which seems to imply some kind of BIOS action or interrupt or something happens which could be caught. back in 2.2.x, i used to build IDE as a module, and after plugging up the CDROM do a 'rmmod ide-probe; modprobe ide-probe' which had a pretty good success rate. i'm hoping maybe the 2.4.x hotplug features have made this obsolete. (plugging up the floppy drive always works, because PC floppy controllers are too dumb to care if they actually have a drive attached). ian -- ---- Ian Soboroff ian@cs.umbc.edu University of MD Baltimore County http://www.cs.umbc.edu/~ian - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/