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Re: IDE Bus rescan



At 15:25 09/09/2004, you 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?
Thx Pir

You're trying to hot-swap IDE drives? From what I read and remember of the docs it's technically possible, but has a nasty tendency to blow your IDE controller.


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