[ltp] Re: IDE hotswapping

[Jim Duchek]

I'm willing to take a look.  It shouldn't be too hard to modify since
it's your only IDE device.  Can you send me a copy of the output to
'dmesg' and the output to 'ls -R /sys/firmware'?

What kind of laptop is it?

Jim


On 21/04/06, Justus Piater <Justus.Piater@ulg.ac.be> wrote:
> Hello from a non-Thinkpad user. I think there are competent people on
> this list who may be able to help me:
>
> I have Fujitsu S7020. It has a SATA hard disk and a removable IDE
> optical drive. Since the latter is the only IDE device, Linux
> registers it as /dev/hda.
>
> Tim Stadelmann's hotswap utility (you call it "Debian hotswap" on
> http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/UltraBay) does not work for me. It
> assumes that /dev/hda is always present, and issues HDIO_SCAN_HWIF and
> HDIO_UNREGISTER_HWIF ioctl's on it to register/unregister the device,
> both of which fail on my machine (which may be due to the fact that
> /dev/hda is the only IDE device here).
>
> In any case, your Wiki says that lt_hotswap is the preferred method
> for 2.6 kernels since it leaves DMA intact.
>
> Here's my question for you: Will lt_hotswap help me out?
>
> In its current form it won't since it's hard-coded for IDE1, whereas
> my removable drive is on IDE0, but it may be worth hacking it. Jim,
> Tim, what do you think?
>
> Thanks,
> Justus
>
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