Re: hotplugging ide harddrive

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 06/04/07 16:36, Andrew J. Barr wrote:
> On Mon, 04 Jun 2007 15:51:42 -0500
> Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
>
> > On 06/04/07 11:24, Andrew J. Barr wrote:
> > > Any drive, any laptop. I think ACPI supports IDE hotswap.
> > Interesting.  I don't plan on getting any arrows in my back, though!
> >
> > I'd feel more comfortable hotswapping SATA drives, though, since it 
> > uses more SCSI code, and scan-scsi-bus.sh might pick it up.
>
> And so does absolutely everything as soon as libata goes mainstream.
> The notion of /dev/hd* will be dead forever. It's already in mainline
> kernels, I guess most distributions must turn it off by default...

You must not have installed Debian in a while! (That's a good 
thing...)  For almost 2 years (probably more), all SATA devices have 
been sd.

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