Re: IDE Bus rescan

From: Frank Gevaerts (frank_at_gevaerts.be)
Date: 09/09/04

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    On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 04:25:07PM +0200, 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?

    The only way that I know of is to compile ide support as a module, and
    then remove and reload the ide module. Of course, this only works if ide
    is not being used at the moment, which means no mounted filesystems on
    ide disks. This probably makes the feature useless for most people.

    Frank

    > Thx Pir
    >

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