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Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2000 13:37:09 +0100
From: Andries Brouwer <aeb@veritas.com>
To: Joe Woodward <woodey@twasystems.fsnet.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: removable EIDE disks
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On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 11:12:00AM -0000, 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 remov
Detected scsi removable disk sda at scsi1, channel 0, id 6, lun 0

Andries
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